# Post-merge GPUs as Akash's unique value proposition

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-25
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** The Akash Adoption Plan (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:48 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINPrJmIV9s&t=168s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2022-07-25-post-merge-gpus-as-akash-s-unique-value-propositio-6s3w/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Post-merge GPUs as Akash's unique value proposition," The Akash Adoption Plan (Akash Network), 25 Jul 2022, 00:02:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINPrJmIV9s&t=168s

## Quote — verbatim

> In the next phase we're going to be focused on data-intensive applications because it's extremely expensive to run GPUs in the cloud... and especially by sourcing the underutilized GPUs of the Ethereum merge is going to be a very important unique value proposition Akash can provide to the world.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining phase two of the adoption plan, weeks before the September 2022 Ethereum merge freed up mining GPUs; anticipates Akash's later pivot to an AI/GPU marketplace.