# Enormous idle compute sits in our home devices; it needs federation

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-14
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Akash Network: A New Era of Affordable, Decentralized Cloud Computing with Greg Osuri \| Varuni (Thecoinrepublic)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:19 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-7d8tU3WQ&t=439s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2024-11-14-enormous-idle-compute-sits-in-our-home-devices-it-fyay/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Enormous idle compute sits in our home devices; it needs federation," Akash Network: A New Era of Affordable, Decentralized Cloud Computing with Greg Osuri \| Varuni (Thecoinrepublic), 14 Nov 2024, 00:07:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-7d8tU3WQ&t=439s

## Quote — verbatim

> A lot of GPUs — talk about gaming consoles in our homes, right? My gaming console, I use them once a day. There's enormous compute in our devices that is just distributed everywhere. That's why we need a system that can take advantage of this distributed compute and bring them in a federated manner — that's what Akash is.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining why idle GPU capacity (miners, ML companies between training runs, consumer devices) demands a federated marketplace.