# StarCluster: 5,000 edge sites first, then 22 million homes

- **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:** 00:31:42 — 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-starcluster-5-000-edge-sites-first-then-22-million-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "StarCluster: 5,000 edge sites first, then 22 million homes," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:31:42. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> Of course, the goal is to go inside a house. That's the vision of StarCluster. We are working with partners now, and I don't want to disclose who they are to finalize the terms, but some of our partners are in about 22 million homes in America.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Phase one uses underrated telco edge data centers — "In the U.S. alone, we have about 5,000 edge sites" with water, energy, cheap bandwidth and green-energy PPAs [00:30:13].