# A chip at home consumes the solar energy you can't store or sell

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-31
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:25:37 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2025-07-31-a-chip-at-home-consumes-the-solar-energy-you-can-t-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "A chip at home consumes the solar energy you can't store or sell," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:25:37. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> We do have the greatest fusion reactor sitting in our sky that we don't capture... You can't sell it back because no one's going to buy your energy during the day... And batteries are still, the economics of batteries are still a little shaky... If you put a chip, like, I put a kilowatt chip, which 4090 is a kilowatt.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Concludes "If I can put a chip at home, that'll consume all the excess energy" [00:26:23] — GPUs as the economic alternative to home batteries for excess solar.