# 85% of data center capacity sits unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-09-11
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Network’s (CRYPTO:AKT) ($AKT) interview with Mr. Greg Osuri CEO. (New to The Street TV)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsXA2hC9dPw&t=135s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-09-11-85-of-data-center-capacity-sits-unused-zvnr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "85% of data center capacity sits unused," Akash Network’s (CRYPTO:AKT) ($AKT) interview with Mr. Greg Osuri CEO. (New to The Street TV), 11 Sept 2021, 00:02:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsXA2hC9dPw&t=135s

## Quote — verbatim

> While we were deploying, we discovered that most capacity in these data centers — somewhere north of 85 percent of capacity — remains unused for various reasons, and that's when the idea for a marketplace came about.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Founding story; he pairs it with the claim of 8.4 million data centers globally at [00:03:39].