# Akash delivers the same compute as AWS for 80% cheaper by reaching idle capacity

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-12-06
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing \| Mainnet 2024 (Messari)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:41 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDw4KZ23G4&t=701s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-12-06-akash-delivers-the-same-compute-as-aws-for-80-chea-3xhv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash delivers the same compute as AWS for 80% cheaper by reaching idle capacity," Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing \| Mainnet 2024 (Messari), 6 Dec 2024, 00:11:41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDw4KZ23G4&t=701s

## Quote — verbatim

> You can get the same amount of compute that you get from AWS for 80% cheaper, and the reason for that is decentralized systems can reach places where centralized systems cannot... closed-off networks, corporate networks, where there is heavily underutilized compute... about 80% or 85% of the time most data centers are not used, because you need to have peak capacity to address peak workloads.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He also cites idle GPU fleets at ex-crypto-mining companies and ML companies that upgraded their training hardware. Quote spans to [00:13:06].