# Own your own compute; offload excess to a peer-to-peer network

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-04-24
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly: Chia (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:50:42 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwZr7s92f8&t=3042s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2022-04-24-own-your-own-compute-offload-excess-to-a-peer-to-p-fshl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Own your own compute; offload excess to a peer-to-peer network," Akash Weekly: Chia (Akash Network), 24 Apr 2022, 00:50:42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwZr7s92f8&t=3042s

## Quote — verbatim

> That is the original vision of Akash... it's about sovereignty. We want people to own their own compute, because that's the best possible deal you can get compared to running it on the cloud. But when you have to scale up... you should be able to connect to the network, or when you do not have demand on your own cluster, you should be able to offload that supply to the network. So the real vision is to create a truly peer-to-peer compute network... truly hyper-efficient usage of resources — I think that's the best model.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering a home-lab provider (Digital Spaceport, running a Proxmox cluster) asking whether providers can run their own workloads — one of Greg's clearest early statements of the owned/local compute + network-overflow thesis.