# Sovereign compute: "compute is going to be like spice"

- **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:** 00:36:05 — 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-sovereign-compute-compute-is-going-to-be-like-spic-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Sovereign compute: "compute is going to be like spice"," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:36:05. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> Our long-term vision has been the same since our white papers we wrote in 2018. It hasn't changed at all. Our vision is sovereign compute. Compute is going to be like spice... Historically, spice was the most valuable commodity... Instead of giving up your sovereignty for comfort, we can have both.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The spice analogy: not essential at first, then the most valuable commodity; "we all use compute. We just don't realize how much compute we use."