# Airbnb for data centers

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-06-12
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** The GPU crisis that AI needs solved now. W/ Greg Osuri, CEO Overclock Labs Akash Network (Parks and Decentralization)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:14 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCkBP7Pw6Y&t=434s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-06-12-airbnb-for-data-centers-t52c/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Airbnb for data centers," The GPU crisis that AI needs solved now. W/ Greg Osuri, CEO Overclock Labs Akash Network (Parks and Decentralization), 12 Jun 2023, 00:07:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCkBP7Pw6Y&t=434s

## Quote — verbatim

> The simplest way to understand is it's an open market for compute, so think of it like Airbnb for data centers... there is an enormous amount of underutilized compute capacity all around the world.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His standard framing of Akash, leading into the H100/A100 scarcity discussion (two-year wait times from Nvidia).