# Without $100M or hyperscaler backing, high-density GPUs are unobtainable

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-01-09
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:39 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=999s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-01-09-without-100m-or-hyperscaler-backing-high-density-g-xl26/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Without $100M or hyperscaler backing, high-density GPUs are unobtainable," Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast), 9 Jan 2024, 00:16:39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=999s

## Quote — verbatim

> If you don't have $100 million in your bank account and not funded by Amazon, Google or Microsoft, one of the big players, it's impossible to get high-density compute. That's just the reality.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining Akash's demand side — funded AI companies that can't get on-demand A100s; cites a Semafor report interviewing Akash users.