# The invisible Amazon tax on machine learning

- **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-the-invisible-amazon-tax-on-machine-learning-3njm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The invisible Amazon tax on machine learning," 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

> Today on the cloud, if you are a machine learning company using Amazon, 20% of your margins go to Amazon, and you and I, even though we don't run machine learning workloads, are actually paying an invisible Amazon tax.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Making the case for a GPU marketplace on Akash; early (May 2021) version of his recurring "cloud tax" argument.