Devices will outnumber humans; the future needs edge capacity served by people, not hyperscalers
CEO of Overclock Labs On the World of Blockchain & Upcoming Technology In Development (CoinBundle)
“We’re moving to a more decentralized infrastructure where you have devices more than humans accessing the cloud, and a lot of these devices need edge capacity. Cloud is not gonna provide that because the economics doesn’t really work — they’re focusing on building hyperscale data centers, whereas the world and innovation is moving towards more distributed and decentralized computing. Who’s gonna serve this future? It can’t be the cloud — it has to be people. It’s very important to take back control of a foundational element of society back from the oligarchs, and that’s the mission for Akash.” — 00:25:36
Context: His closing argument on why decentralization matters long-term: IoT/edge growth makes hyperscaler economics unworkable, so compute supply must come from people. Early statement of the compute-goes-local thesis. (Captions render “edge” as “age.”)