# Idle office GPU racks will rent out capacity peer-to-peer

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-01-30
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** The Unstoppable Live Stream w/ Greg Osuri and Brian Fox (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:44:13 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kkj0veGYJU&t=2653s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2021-01-30-idle-office-gpu-racks-will-rent-out-capacity-peer-ii6c/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Idle office GPU racks will rent out capacity peer-to-peer," The Unstoppable Live Stream w/ Greg Osuri and Brian Fox (Akash Network), 30 Jan 2021, 00:44:13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kkj0veGYJU&t=2653s

## Quote — verbatim

> The pattern is these guys use it like two hours and 22 hours it's just sitting unused. So when that's being unused they can rent out this capacity to the market and earn tokens in exchange, and when they want to use it more than they have, they can use these tokens to get more capacity. I think having a peer-to-peer machine learning cloud is an amazing use case for Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Machine learning support declared "a P1, priority one for us" — ML friends keep racks of 1080s/2080s in-house because cloud is too expensive; GPU roadmap promised right after mainnet 2.