# Enterprise data centers sit at \~15% utilization

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-03-17
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Why the Future of AI Depends on Decentralized Cloud Platforms (Eye on AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:19 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0UByMDUv4&t=439s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2025-03-17-enterprise-data-centers-sit-at-15-utilization-zwe7/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Enterprise data centers sit at \~15% utilization," Why the Future of AI Depends on Decentralized Cloud Platforms (Eye on AI), 17 Mar 2025, 00:07:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0UByMDUv4&t=439s

## Quote — verbatim

> The 10,000 or so enterprise data centers, their utilization rate is somewhere around 15%. So there's enormous underutilization in these 10,000 professional one-megawatt-capacity data centers.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Laying out the supply thesis: ~7.2M data centers worldwide, ~11,000 professional ones, ~1,000 hyperscale — the rest heavily underutilized, which Akash monetizes.