# Neighbors trading GPU time — battery packs for compute

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-05-17
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Mission: DeFi EP 98 - Can Akash be a major player in AI with their GPU market? Founder Greg Osuri (Mission: DeFi)
- **Watch at:** 00:39:45 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_r_fOVT04&t=2385s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2023-05-17-neighbors-trading-gpu-time-battery-packs-for-compu-7ayq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Neighbors trading GPU time — battery packs for compute," Mission: DeFi EP 98 - Can Akash be a major player in AI with their GPU market? Founder Greg Osuri (Mission: DeFi), 17 May 2023, 00:39:45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_r_fOVT04&t=2385s

## Quote — verbatim

> Consider a scenario where you have a supercomputer in your house and your neighbor has one and you need more power — you don't want to go to the cloud, you can go ask your neighbor and use Akash to trade... It becomes like battery packs for GPUs at some point: just use it when you have, or sell it back to the grid... or get back from the grid when you need it.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Extending the home-supercomputer scenario into an electricity-grid analogy for peer-to-peer compute sharing — an early statement of his recurring compute-as-grid thesis.