# Compute shortage means borrowing from your neighbors

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-04-23
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** From AWS to Akash: Greg Osuri on Building a Decentralized Compute Marketplace (Smart Economy Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:31:22 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fBYZPHOQds&t=1882s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2026-04-23-compute-shortage-means-borrowing-from-your-neighbo-cmux/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Compute shortage means borrowing from your neighbors," From AWS to Akash: Greg Osuri on Building a Decentralized Compute Marketplace (Smart Economy Network), 23 Apr 2026, 00:31:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fBYZPHOQds&t=1882s

## Quote — verbatim

> The shortage is going to get worse. And what happens when you have shortage? You borrow from peers, you borrow from your neighbors. What Akash enables is borrowing compute power from your neighbors that are not in physically geographical accessible distance for you — basically making anyone your neighbor that you can borrow from.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On agents consuming ever more tokens (cites Anthropic at ~$30B annual revenue) and compute scarcity worsening; "that's the thesis and I still continue to believe."