# Idle home GPUs — PlayStations, Xboxes, Macs — are wasted compute

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-16
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Interview with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Web3 Working Group)
- **Watch at:** 00:30:58 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=1858s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2023-02-16-idle-home-gpus-playstations-xboxes-macs-are-wasted-hv5e/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Idle home GPUs — PlayStations, Xboxes, Macs — are wasted compute," Interview with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Web3 Working Group), 16 Feb 2023, 00:30:58. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFnp7eUw3M&t=1858s

## Quote — verbatim

> If you go beyond data centers, just look at the compute that we have unused in our homes. I have a PlayStation and Xbox right behind me that's just sitting there — I probably use it once or twice a year — but just sitting there with powerful GPUs. And the computers, your Macs have M1 chips, which are very powerful GPUs that are not used... there's a lot of underutilized resources that are spread globally that is using enormous amounts of energy that needs to be fixed.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Extending the underutilization argument from data centers to consumer devices — home hardware as future cloud supply.