# Tap underused servers, telco closets, and home rigs instead of $500M campuses

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-06-27
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Beyond GPUs: How Decentralization Can Solve AI's Biggest Scaling Bottleneck \| Day 2 \| Crypto x AI (Blockworks)
- **Watch at:** 00:06:03 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgD4BzHEcu4&t=363s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2025-06-27-tap-underused-servers-telco-closets-and-home-rigs-x52a/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Tap underused servers, telco closets, and home rigs instead of $500M campuses," Beyond GPUs: How Decentralization Can Solve AI's Biggest Scaling Bottleneck \| Day 2 \| Crypto x AI (Blockworks), 27 Jun 2025, 00:06:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgD4BzHEcu4&t=363s

## Quote — verbatim

> Three, decentralized compute. This is the lever no one saw coming. What if we didn't have to wait for a $500 million hyperscale campus to come online? What if we could tap into underused servers, edge locations, telco closets, and even home rigs? With decentralized compute, we don't need to centralize power. We distribute it.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Third of three levers to scale AI; home rigs explicitly included in the compute supply.