# The near-term GPU fix: repurpose the idle chips already in homes and data centers

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-02-14
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** "How to Pivot your Career in Crypto and AI \| Builder's Diary \#9 with Greg Osuri" (Finality Crypto Podcast (DeFi Times))
- **Watch at:** 00:55:00 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-pivot-your-career-in-crypto-and-ai-builders/id1541829695?i=1000645292095
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2024-02-14-the-near-term-gpu-fix-repurpose-the-idle-chips-alr-klnh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The near-term GPU fix: repurpose the idle chips already in homes and data centers," "How to Pivot your Career in Crypto and AI \| Builder's Diary \#9 with Greg Osuri" (Finality Crypto Podcast (DeFi Times)), 14 Feb 2024, 00:55:00. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-pivot-your-career-in-crypto-and-ai-builders/id1541829695?i=1000645292095

## Quote — verbatim

> The only way to solve the problem for now is to look inward instead of looking outward. Instead of expanding our capabilities, let's look at repurposing what we already purchased. Turns out there's a lot of GPUs that are not used... we have PlayStations sitting in homes that are maybe used once or twice every year... 4090s that I have right here... at least half the time they're not used while you sleep.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His answer to the NVIDIA/TSMC supply bottleneck (quote spans into the 00:55:43 block): idle consumer and enterprise GPUs (retired A100 fleets, post-training-run clusters) brought to market by crypto incentives — "that's where crypto is phenomenal."