Data centers sit unused 85% of the time
Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin))
“There are about 8.1 million data centers in the world… in these data centers, they only use 15% of the time. That means 85% of the time they’re not being used… [Intuit] during tax season, their compute is used 95% of their capacity or higher… Off tax season, they only use 5% or less.” — 00:09:13
Context: The Airbnb analogy’s supply side (quote spans into the 00:09:58 block); he notes AWS itself was born from Amazon’s idle retail capacity — “what Amazon did to themselves is what Akash is doing for the rest of them” (00:10:40).