{"id":521,"date":"2026-06-21T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/de-pin.tech\/who-controls-the-worlds-computing-power-today\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:57:08","slug":"who-controls-the-worlds-computing-power-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/de-pin.tech\/en\/home\/who-controls-the-worlds-computing-power-today\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200b Who controls the world’s computing power today?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n \ud83d\udc51 Who rules the world of power right now?
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\n \u201cMost people think that Artificial Intelligence is just a fun little gadget on their smartphones that they can chat with over a cup of coffee or use to generate an image. They don\u2019t realize that right now, behind the scenes, a fierce global war for computing power is raging, completely reshaping the world economy…\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Today, at the top of the computing world\u2019s food chain stand the largest technology monopolies<\/span> \u2014giants such as Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. They control enormous amounts of server capacity across the globe, dictating their own rules and prices to the entire market.\n <\/p>\n

\n Right now, a<\/span> full-blown \u201cGreat AI War\u201d<\/span> is raging between them. On one side are American proprietary corporations (OpenAI, Google), which are trying to lock technology away in their \u201cclouds\u201d and charge for every request. On the other side is a powerful Chinese bloc (DeepSeek, Alibaba\u2019s Qwen, GLM), which is breaking this monopoly and making the most powerful neural networks freely available, requiring a huge number of free servers around the world.\n <\/p>\n

\n A Crazy Shortage:<\/span> The demand for computing power is so insane that corporations, banks, and hedge funds are snapping up industrial-grade hardware in massive clusters, buying entire server racks for the price of a whole fleet of Boeings \u2708\ufe0f. Ordinary developers and small-to-medium-sized businesses simply cannot physically access this computing power due to astronomical prices and red tape.\n <\/div>\n

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\ud83d\udcb0 Why does a computer cost as much as a beachfront villa?<\/h3>\n

\n A single modern high-end AI server today costs as much as a luxury villa in the Dominican Republic\u2014anywhere from $200,000 to $500,000<\/span>. Why are people paying such crazy amounts for it?\n <\/p>\n

\n “Major Banks and Hedge Funds:<\/span> They are physically unable to\u2014and are prohibited by law from\u2014storing their trade secrets and transactions in the Google Cloud or OpenAI. They need their own isolated computing resources to run AI models within their private networks.“<\/span>\n <\/p>\n

\n “Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry:<\/span> Developing new drugs or simulating molecules requires billions of calculations per second. Pharmaceutical companies are willing to pay any price to rent available computing power right here, right now.“<\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\ud83d\udc1c Our Answer: The Digital Anthill Strategy<\/h3>\n

\n Our standalone micro-server ,<\/span> costing $10,000\u2013$15,000,<\/span> looks like a tiny, lone ant compared to these corporate giants. A single ant is powerless against a corporate elephant. But when DePIN<\/span> technology unites thousands of such independent \u201cants\u201d into a single decentralized network, we create a mighty digital anthill<\/span>. And an organized anthill, as we know, is capable of devouring any elephant\u2014even the largest, most inattentive one\u2014alive.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n In this centralized system, all power and money are concentrated in the hands of a few players. But it is precisely this rigid monopoly that has created the need for an alternative\u2014decentralized DePIN<\/span> networks, which take this power away from the giants and distribute it among ordinary hardware owners.\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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