# The invisible Amazon tax on machine learning

- **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:** 00:32:42 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVgxTCWPgc&t=1962s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-06-22-the-invisible-amazon-tax-on-machine-learning-7cwg/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The invisible Amazon tax on machine learning," Live AMA featuring Greg Osuri from the Akash Network! (Bittrex Global), 22 Jun 2021, 00:32:42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqVgxTCWPgc&t=1962s

## 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

Case for the GPU marketplace; early version of his recurring "cloud tax" argument.