Data centers are 85-90% underutilized
Akash Network: A New Era of Affordable, Decentralized Cloud Computing with Greg Osuri | Varuni (Thecoinrepublic)
“As we were deploying a lot of these solutions to different data centers across the world, we realized most compute is underutilized — somewhere north of 85% to 90% of the time, data centers have underutilized compute, unused compute, because you need peak capacity to add peak workload.” — 00:03:02
Context: Origin story of Akash; this underutilization stat is one of his most repeated founding claims.