# Tesla cars are data centers on wheels that should earn income while charging

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-05-29
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** The Biz Call: 20210428 GregOsuri AkashNetwork (robfrankel)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:53 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqVL8W57O6k&t=593s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2021-05-29-tesla-cars-are-data-centers-on-wheels-that-should-325p/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Tesla cars are data centers on wheels that should earn income while charging," The Biz Call: 20210428 GregOsuri AkashNetwork (robfrankel), 29 May 2021, 00:09:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqVL8W57O6k&t=593s

## Quote — verbatim

> Tesla cars are essentially giant data centers on wheels — they have about 200 computers with GPU workloads, and that GPU capacity is not used during the evening hours when the car is being charged, and that's the prime opportunity for the car to start earning tokens by selling that unused capacity to an AI researcher that wants lower cost compute.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Long-term goal discussion; he frames idle consumer/edge devices as untapped cloud supply "blocked by these centralized guardians."