# A power-grid model: AI companies sell idle GPUs back to the network

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-04-09
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos)
- **Watch at:** 00:38:14 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=2294s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-04-09-a-power-grid-model-ai-companies-sell-idle-gpus-bac-ksdj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "A power-grid model: AI companies sell idle GPUs back to the network," Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos), 9 Apr 2021, 00:38:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=2294s

## Quote — verbatim

> They could actually install Akash in their clusters and sell the underutilized... capacity back into the network like a power grid model, and earn tokens for that unused capacity, and when they want to use at peak... they can use these tokens... so in this case the provider itself becomes a payer, and that's really an ideal peer-to-peer GPU cloud that we really want to target.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Noting AI companies buy in-house GPU clusters but use them only 2-3 hours a day for training; the electricity-grid framing recurs throughout Greg's later energy/compute talks.