# Ethereum's merge will strand miner GPUs — Akash will absorb them

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-05-28
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** We're live with Greg Osuri from Akash Network (AKT) (Bittrex Global)
- **Watch at:** 00:38:02 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlfmFCEycW0&t=2282s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-05-28-ethereum-s-merge-will-strand-miner-gpus-akash-will-3njm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Ethereum's merge will strand miner GPUs — Akash will absorb them," We're live with Greg Osuri from Akash Network (AKT) (Bittrex Global), 28 May 2021, 00:38:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlfmFCEycW0&t=2282s

## Quote — verbatim

> Ethereum network moving off proof of work and moving on to proof of stake implies that this entire GPU infrastructure Ethereum miners have built is going to become obsolete, and we want to tap into that... and enable a multi-tenancy GPU marketplace... I think it's going to be huge for us.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Roadmap answer, over a year before the September 2022 merge; predicts stranded miner GPUs become Akash supply (quote spans into the [00:38:45] block).