Why Decentralized Cloud Matters

The centralized cloud industry today is dominated by a handful of corporations that control the backbone of the internet. This leads to:

• Vendor Lock-In → high switching costs trap businesses.

• Censorship Risks → platforms and governments can shut down applications.

• Data Exploitation → user data is harvested, monetized, and surveilled.

• Single Points of Failure → outages in one region can disrupt global services.

A decentralized cloud solves these issues by distributing workloads across global networks of independent nodes. This ensures:

• Resilience → no single point of failure.

• Freedom → no central kill switch or gatekeeper.

• Fairness → value flows back to node operators and communities.

• Trustless Security → encryption and zero-knowledge proofs replace trust in corporations.

Pinera exists to make this decentralized model accessible, enterprise-ready, and privacy-first.