# 85% of server capacity sits underutilized

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-11-09
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Serverless Panel: Komal Mangtani, Greg Osuri, Guillermo Rauch, Gwen Shapira (Kong)
- **Watch at:** 00:18:16 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOaS_SQWuE&t=1096s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2018-11-09-85-of-server-capacity-sits-underutilized-wydh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "85% of server capacity sits underutilized," Serverless Panel: Komal Mangtani, Greg Osuri, Guillermo Rauch, Gwen Shapira (Kong), 9 Nov 2018, 00:18:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOaS_SQWuE&t=1096s

## Quote — verbatim

> What we do is we tap into slack server capacity that's underutilized — I mean, eighty-five percent of capacity out there today sits underutilized in most of the servers, and our job is to bring them, aggregate, and provide an interface.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering a question about vendor lock-in and cloud affordability; the founding supply-side statistic for Akash.