# Cheaper, better, open — sovereignty for the next generation

- **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:** 00:39:59 — 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-cheaper-better-open-sovereignty-for-the-next-gener-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cheaper, better, open — sovereignty for the next generation," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:39:59. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> It is cheaper, it's better, it's open. And if my child is going to grow up in a world relying on this technology, I want to make sure that she has complete sovereignty on what the technology is. And that's the vision. That's always been the vision.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

First-principles cost argument: compute is hardware + bandwidth + energy + water — "resources that we all have" locally, peer-to-peer, without a centralized entity.