# 75-90% of data center capacity is underutilized (2017 supercloud paper)

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-26
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** What is Akash Network? Greg Osuri on Decentralized Cloud Computing \| Greg Osuri - Founder of Akash (Genzio)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX9lYr57fE&t=135s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-11-26-75-90-of-data-center-capacity-is-underutilized-201-oojj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "75-90% of data center capacity is underutilized (2017 supercloud paper)," What is Akash Network? Greg Osuri on Decentralized Cloud Computing \| Greg Osuri - Founder of Akash (Genzio), 26 Nov 2024, 00:02:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIX9lYr57fE&t=135s

## Quote — verbatim

> After several experiments on Ethereum in 2016, we were convinced that this is possible, so we wrote a paper and published that in 2017 called a decentralized supercloud, and we proposed that there is enormous amounts of underutilized capacity around the world — on an average about 75% of data center capacity that's active is underutilized, and that's a conservative estimate; in the reality \[it's\] somewhere like 90%.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The founding thesis, dated to the 2017 whitepaper.