Idle PlayStations, Xboxes, and desktops are the untapped compute layer
How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs | Greg Osuri (0xResearch)
“If you think about the global distribution of compute power, it’s everywhere. The best compute power is hyper-underutilized: gaming consoles — like my PlayStation and Xbox, I use them once a year during Christmas and most of the time I’m not using them, and they have very powerful GPUs sitting idle — to my desktops, to desktops at professional work environments, to data centers.” — 00:13:08
Context: Asked whether consumer devices can supply meaningful compute; he maps the pyramid from consoles up to data centers.