Buy a GPU, host it at home, lease it out when idle
Akash Weekly - October 5th 2022 (Akash Network)
“People are realizing it’s actually way cheaper to buy a GPU and host it at home, but then you’re not using those GPUs most of the time, so it’s even better when you can actually lease them out to recover some of your investments. So Akash GPU [is something] I’m extremely bullish on… as we get closer to releasing GPUs… we’re realizing the GPU market is much bigger than what we realized.” — 00:12:25
Context: GPU support named the next big feature after IP leases; he cites unnamed large companies eager to use it for machine learning and Stanford research on using distributed GPU clusters. An early statement of the home-GPUs-earning-income thesis.