# More compute lives in user devices than in data centers

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-08-02
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri, Marko Stokic, Michael Heinrich & Luki Song on Can User-Owned AI Compete with Big Tech? (Nebular)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEi1i2c12E&t=135s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2024-08-02-more-compute-lives-in-user-devices-than-in-data-ce-qoxs/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "More compute lives in user devices than in data centers," Greg Osuri, Marko Stokic, Michael Heinrich & Luki Song on Can User-Owned AI Compete with Big Tech? (Nebular), 2 Aug 2024, 00:02:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEi1i2c12E&t=135s

## Quote — verbatim

> There's a lot more compute that's spread across user devices than centralized in a data center. Now with techniques that we have coming up for distributed learning and whatnot, users can own their compute and aggregate them through decentralized technologies — and that's happening very rapidly.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering "what moat does Big Tech have?" — he argues compute and data moats both invert in favor of users.