10,000 small sites instead of 10 mega data centers — down to your basement rig
Superintelligence Needs The Supercloud Why the AI Revolution... | PMLS 2025 | Day 3 | Open Source AI (Blockworks)
“Decentralized compute — this is a game changer. Instead of building 10 massive data centers, what if we could tap into 10,000 smaller ones? Colos, edge nodes, university clusters, even your basement rig. And that’s what Akash does: ties them all together, monetizes their capacity, and routes workloads wherever they can run efficiently.” — 00:05:18
Context: Third of his three levers to break the energy bottleneck, after radical efficiency and clean supply; “we’re not waiting for a new hyperscale zone to get approved — we’re using what we already have.”