# GPUs are nearly impossible to lease on demand

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-08-02
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri of Akash on Unlocking DePIN Capabilities for AI Model Training (Nebular)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:53 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKVdqzUBAg&t=173s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-08-02-gpus-are-nearly-impossible-to-lease-on-demand-gc32/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "GPUs are nearly impossible to lease on demand," Greg Osuri of Akash on Unlocking DePIN Capabilities for AI Model Training (Nebular), 2 Aug 2024, 00:02:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKVdqzUBAg&t=173s

## Quote — verbatim

> GPUs today are nearly impossible to lease on demand — on demand in the sense, use for however long you need... if you try and go to Amazon today and try to rent a chip, it's impossible to get on demand, you have to get into a long contract before they can even talk to you.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Core thesis of the talk; he adds that going direct to Nvidia means a two-year wait, and Lambda/CoreWeave require 1-2 year prepaid contracts with 3-6 month delivery. Quote spans into the next caption block.