# Teslas will earn income mining compute — maybe enough to pay for the car

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-04-09
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos)
- **Watch at:** 00:32:33 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=1953s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2021-04-09-teslas-will-earn-income-mining-compute-maybe-enoug-fy72/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Teslas will earn income mining compute — maybe enough to pay for the car," Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos), 9 Apr 2021, 00:32:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlOVeUXd90&t=1953s

## Quote — verbatim

> It 100% should mine, or offer their compute to a AI supercomputer... imagine connecting all the Teslas and securing a supercomputer to analyze weather patterns or scientific research... and maybe even pay for the Tesla itself — earn enough to actually pay for Tesla. So \[it\] creates an incredible amount of efficiency, just like the solar grid.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Continuation of the Tesla thread — idle consumer hardware earning income by selling compute, explicitly analogized to distributed solar generation.