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Centralized clouds scale by building walls.
DePINs scale by removing them.
The cloud model assumes compute is scarce.
That "scarcity" is manufactured.
Thousands of data centers run at ~15% utilization.
Millions of GPUs sit idle every night.
Billions of devices never enter the supply curve.
DePINs orchestrate capacity that's otherwise idle into a shared global pool.
More supply isn’t a feature.
It’s the mechanism.
When supply explodes, prices fall.
When nodes are everywhere, latency collapses.
When no one owns the rails, censorship fails.
This isn’t a cheaper cloud.
It’s different physics for compute.