# GPUs "harder to get than drugs"; sub-$2 H100s on Akash

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-19
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Decentralizing AI: Compute Protocols and Proof of Work - Panel Discussion \| Proof of Data 2024 (Recall Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:12 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoePJrzyDQ&t=132s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-03-19-gpus-harder-to-get-than-drugs-sub-2-h100s-on-akash-zhzm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "GPUs "harder to get than drugs"; sub-$2 H100s on Akash," Decentralizing AI: Compute Protocols and Proof of Work - Panel Discussion \| Proof of Data 2024 (Recall Network), 19 Mar 2024, 00:02:12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoePJrzyDQ&t=132s

## Quote — verbatim

> GPUs are very hard to get, and according to Elon Musk, harder than drugs. But there are GPUs available in the wild, and Akash is effectively bringing a lot of that GPU supply to the market for people that need them. Right now Akash, I bet, is the only platform you can get A100 and H100s...

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He finishes "...on demand for sub $2 — so we sell spice" in the next caption block (00:02:55); a dated market-condition claim from the March 2024 GPU crunch.