# There are free GPUs everywhere; GPUs are the new spice

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-02
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Revolutionizing GPU Access for AI Workloads \| Greg Osuri - Akash Network (ETHDenver)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:25 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6AGsyg8v-I&t=265s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-03-02-there-are-free-gpus-everywhere-gpus-are-the-new-sp-ce3h/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "There are free GPUs everywhere; GPUs are the new spice," Revolutionizing GPU Access for AI Workloads \| Greg Osuri - Akash Network (ETHDenver), 2 Mar 2024, 00:04:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6AGsyg8v-I&t=265s

## Quote — verbatim

> There are free GPUs everywhere... a lot of crypto miners that bought a ton of GPUs during the last cycle that are sitting idle... Foundry Digital, which is owned by DCG, is sitting on massive amounts of A100s and 6000s... There are also companies that are raising money with GPUs as collateral, so GPUs are the new spice.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The supply-side thesis (quote spans to [00:06:36]): post-Ethereum-merge miners and ML companies with idle older fleets (e.g., Stability's 5,000 A100s) make a GPU-cycle marketplace viable.