# The Ethereum merge unleashed $19B of idle GPUs as centralized infrastructure crumbles

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-06-03
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** AI is using chips faster than Nvidia can make them. How crypto is helping \| Akash and Render Token (Coinage)
- **Watch at:** 00:03:38 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9vbSk1QNk&t=218s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-06-03-the-ethereum-merge-unleashed-19b-of-idle-gpus-as-c-7jsc/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The Ethereum merge unleashed $19B of idle GPUs as centralized infrastructure crumbles," AI is using chips faster than Nvidia can make them. How crypto is helping \| Akash and Render Token (Coinage), 3 Jun 2023, 00:03:38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9vbSk1QNk&t=218s

## Quote — verbatim

> The current centralized infrastructure is crumbling \[under\] server AI \[demand\]... on the other hand you have the Ethereum merge that basically unleashed 19 billion dollars worth of GPUs that are idle right now.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His supply-demand thesis in mid-2023: exploding AI demand meets a post-merge glut of idle mining GPUs that networks like Akash can harness.