# The Ethereum merge will flood the market with GPUs for Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-12-22
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Office Hours : End of Year Product Update (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:26:23 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhuhCng_JyA&t=1583s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-12-22-the-ethereum-merge-will-flood-the-market-with-gpus-lcf4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The Ethereum merge will flood the market with GPUs for Akash," Akash Office Hours : End of Year Product Update (Akash Network), 22 Dec 2021, 00:26:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhuhCng_JyA&t=1583s

## Quote — verbatim

> A big source of GPUs in the next six months is going to be from Ethereum miners. As you know, Ethereum is moving off proof of work to proof of stake — that unlocks \[an\] enormous amount of GPU capability in the market that has really nowhere to go, and Akash being a prime cloud partner would be an amazing use for us to use these GPUs and offer that at a discount that's significant from what's being offered in the market right now.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

GPU support was slated as the big Q1 2022 feature for machine-learning workloads; the merge happened September 2022 and Akash GPUs actually shipped in 2023.