# Cloud repatriation: 40x savings building in-house GPUs

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2022-12-11
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Ask Akash - What problem does Akash solve? Can it scale? (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:10 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maqn563IeRY&t=130s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2022-12-11-cloud-repatriation-40x-savings-building-in-house-g-p3ub/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "Cloud repatriation: 40x savings building in-house GPUs," Ask Akash - What problem does Akash solve? Can it scale? (Akash Network), 11 Dec 2022, 00:02:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maqn563IeRY&t=130s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's a tweet from a16z Andreessen Horowitz's partner Martin Casado about the repatriation of the data center... there's one case where he talks about a company saving up to a 40x, sorry, of the cloud bill by building a GPU kit in-house. It still doesn't solve the underutilized problem — if that company is not using their hardware 100 \[percent\] of the time, they're still losing money.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Uses the repatriation trend as validation that cloud is overpriced, then extends it: idle owned hardware should be rented out on Akash. **Speaker:** uncredited Ask Akash answer; likely Greg.