# Idle PlayStations, Xboxes, and desktops are the untapped compute layer

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-10-26
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs \| Greg Osuri (0xResearch)
- **Watch at:** 00:13:08 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=788s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2023-10-26-idle-playstations-xboxes-and-desktops-are-the-unta-5muq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Idle PlayStations, Xboxes, and desktops are the untapped compute layer," How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs \| Greg Osuri (0xResearch), 26 Oct 2023, 00:13:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA0yN28Dw8&t=788s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked whether consumer devices can supply meaningful compute; he maps the pyramid from consoles up to data centers.