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International Business Times
International Business Times
Technology
David Thompson

Centralized Compute Will Not Scale: The Case for Citizen-Owned Infrastructure

For all the fervor and hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), a problem constantly lurking in the shadows that rarely makes it into keynote speeches or glossy pitch decks—we're running out of compute.

The surge in demand for Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) has already pushed prices into the stratosphere and created a chokepoint where just a handful of centralized companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia, etc.) control the world's AI capacity.

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