# AI entering the home will cause an explosion of small data centers

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-03-17
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Why the Future of AI Depends on Decentralized Cloud Platforms (Eye on AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:25:27 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0UByMDUv4&t=1527s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2025-03-17-ai-entering-the-home-will-cause-an-explosion-of-sm-ib5u/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI entering the home will cause an explosion of small data centers," Why the Future of AI Depends on Decentralized Cloud Platforms (Eye on AI), 17 Mar 2025, 00:25:27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0UByMDUv4&t=1527s

## Quote — verbatim

> When AI becomes very important, if AI has to really enter the home — which I think it will — I think that's when we're going to see an explosion of these data centers... I think there's going to be a resurgence of the data centers, for privacy, for ownership, for cost reasons.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He notes ~7.2M small data centers today, down from a 2017 peak of 8.6M killed off by cloud, and predicts the trend reverses; the goal is "decentralized AI... by decentralizing the energy production and energy consumption as well" (continues into the [00:26:09] block).