# Over 85% of the world's compute sits unused

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-08-18
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - August 17th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:43:28 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZFaKHqVqQ&t=2608s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2022-08-18-over-85-of-the-world-s-compute-sits-unused-ko5v/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Over 85% of the world's compute sits unused," Akash Weekly - August 17th 2022 (Akash Network), 18 Aug 2022, 00:43:28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZFaKHqVqQ&t=2608s

## Quote — verbatim

> The problem we're solving is improving efficiency of global computation, because our thesis is this enormous amount of unused compute out there... conservatively, over 85 percent of world's compute is not used.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Core recurring Akash thesis; he ties it to Martin Casado's data-center repatriation tweet (a company saving 40x by leaving cloud) and to energy efficiency — reuse existing hardware rather than expand power capacity.