# Decentralize the compute grid for national security: 1,000 small data centers, "Akash at home"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-05-13
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Ep. 654 The Intersection of AI and Cryptocurrency with Akash Network (CRYPTO 101)
- **Watch at:** 01:00:08 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-654-the-intersection-of-ai-and/id1262351840?i=1000708305733
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2025-05-13-decentralize-the-compute-grid-for-national-securit-j2w6/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralize the compute grid for national security: 1,000 small data centers, "Akash at home"," Ep. 654 The Intersection of AI and Cryptocurrency with Akash Network (CRYPTO 101), 13 May 2025, 01:00:08. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-654-the-intersection-of-ai-and/id1262351840?i=1000708305733

## Quote — verbatim

> Our electric grid is so weak. Our utilities are so weak. And... the way we solve that is, \[where\] we have heavily centered around these, like, small areas, to decentralize them in a way that it cannot be attacked, right? Like, instead of having one large gigawatt data center, how about 1,000 megawatt data centers?

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His "what keeps me up at night" answer: ~30 known hyperscale data centers as drone-swarm/hacking targets in a China conflict scenario. He follows with the goal of "10,000 of these small modular data centers connected to Akash... truly decentralized infrastructure that is attack-proof" (01:01:43) and points to the published "Akash at home" data-center spec (00:49:25).