# Ethereum's move to proof of stake will flood the market with GPUs for AI

- **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:** 00:14:49 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=889s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-04-09-ethereum-s-move-to-proof-of-stake-will-flood-the-m-ipsc/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Ethereum's move to proof of stake will flood the market with GPUs for AI," Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos), 9 Apr 2021, 00:14:49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=889s

## Quote — verbatim

> We have amazing opportunities with Ethereum network... coming off proof of work and going to proof of stake — that opens up a whole range of GPUs on the market, so that's significantly helpful for AI workloads.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Discussing future supply scalability alongside ~8.2 million underutilized data centers; predicted ~18 months before the Merge actually happened (Sept 2022).