# No time for nuclear — connect small data centers everywhere instead

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-09
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Why Decentralized AI Needs Cosmos: Greg Osuri of Akash Explains (The Interop)
- **Watch at:** 00:42:49 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gGBRqzxrQ&t=2569s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2024-11-09-no-time-for-nuclear-connect-small-data-centers-eve-ghpf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "No time for nuclear — connect small data centers everywhere instead," Why Decentralized AI Needs Cosmos: Greg Osuri of Akash Explains (The Interop), 9 Nov 2024, 00:42:49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gGBRqzxrQ&t=2569s

## Quote — verbatim

> It takes about 10 years \[to build a nuclear reactor\]... so we don't have 10 years to wait to build the next generation AI. So I think what's going to happen is there's going to be a lot of the small data centers — they're everywhere — that need to be connected, and if DiLoCo or distributed training \[is\] solved, we can actually use a highly distributed network to develop the next AI model.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His core bull case for DePIN/decentralized GPU networks: they thrive in the gap before nuclear capacity arrives. In the same block he predicts the AI revolution "is going to end up actually great for humanity" by driving the marginal cost of energy down (desalination, water problems).