# Any home computer with a powerful GPU can become a provider

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-01-05
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Updates From the Lab 1/5/22 W/Akash (Osmosis)
- **Watch at:** 00:54:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1P5-n2w8k&t=3280s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2022-01-05-any-home-computer-with-a-powerful-gpu-can-become-a-vzh6/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Any home computer with a powerful GPU can become a provider," Updates From the Lab 1/5/22 W/Akash (Osmosis), 5 Jan 2022, 00:54:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1P5-n2w8k&t=3280s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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).