# Data centers are 85-90% underutilized

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-14
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Network: A New Era of Affordable, Decentralized Cloud Computing with Greg Osuri \| Varuni (Thecoinrepublic)
- **Watch at:** 00:03:02 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-7d8tU3WQ&t=182s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-11-14-data-centers-are-85-90-underutilized-bjtc/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Data centers are 85-90% underutilized," Akash Network: A New Era of Affordable, Decentralized Cloud Computing with Greg Osuri \| Varuni (Thecoinrepublic), 14 Nov 2024, 00:03:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-7d8tU3WQ&t=182s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Origin story of Akash; this underutilization stat is one of his most repeated founding claims.