85% of capacity in 4.8 million data centers is unused
"Hashing It Out #70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
“There is a ton of capacity sitting in data centers. About 85% of the capacity sitting in 4.8 million data centers is not used… there’s this incredible capacity that’s not being used. And there is this, you know, a few companies that are capitalizing on knowledge. And we felt that it was fundamentally broken.” — 00:06:06
Context: The founding thesis; causes given at 00:08:39: peak planning (TurboTax 97% vs 3% utilization) and homogeneous single-purpose server architectures.