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

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-22
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Live AMA featuring Greg Osuri from the Akash Network! (Bittrex Global)
- **Watch at:** 00:33:26 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVgxTCWPgc&t=2006s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-06-22-ethereum-s-merge-will-strand-miner-gpus-akash-will-ftgz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Ethereum's merge will strand miner GPUs — Akash will absorb them," Live AMA featuring Greg Osuri from the Akash Network! (Bittrex Global), 22 Jun 2021, 00:33:26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVgxTCWPgc&t=2006s

## Quote — verbatim

> If you think about 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 given over a year before the September 2022 merge.