Any home computer with a powerful GPU can become a provider
Updates From the Lab 1/5/22 W/Akash (Osmosis)
“We see that changing quite a bit with GPUs, because GPUs now don’t necessarily mandate cloud-grade compute — pretty much any home computer with a powerful GPU can offer compute… gaming computers or mining computers that have a lot of GPUs will soon enough [be] offering [on] Akash.” — 00:54:40
Context: Early (pre-GPU-market) statement of the home-compute thesis; he caveats that home machines suit batch rather than latency-sensitive serving. Second sentence at 00:55:22. Sunny separately predicts post-Merge idle Ethereum GPUs as supply (00:51:48).