# GPU access is feudalism

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-31
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:40:45 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2025-07-31-gpu-access-is-feudalism-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "GPU access is feudalism," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:40:45. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> In order to get decent GPUs, you need to have long contracts with cloud companies. They're going to pick and choose the highest bidders, and it becomes prohibitively expensive. It reminds you of the Middle Ages where you had feudalism... These few lords own the grain, and we all have to stand in line to get the grain because if you don't, you don't get the AI.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Recalls 2023, when an AI researcher couldn't get an A100 without long cloud contracts — the scarcity he says he warned about on stage 10 years ago.