# 85% of capacity in 4.8 million data centers is unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-01-12
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** "Hashing It Out \#70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
- **Watch at:** 00:06:06 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hashing-it-out-70-akash-network-greg-osuri/id1000457699?i=1000462229743
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2020-01-12-85-of-capacity-in-4-8-million-data-centers-is-unus-4ojj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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)), 12 Jan 2020, 00:06:06. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hashing-it-out-70-akash-network-greg-osuri/id1000457699?i=1000462229743

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The founding thesis; causes given at 00:08:39: peak planning (TurboTax 97% vs 3% utilization) and homogeneous single-purpose server architectures.