From an efficiencies perspective, I really like the idea of high-performance compute being centralized and low-power devices at the edge.

Essentially going back to the dumb terminal method. Or like BBS’s. Local-ish but consolidated.

But the idea of pooling all that compute into the hands of a few giant corporations is horrifying.

I’d much rather have, say, a competitive marketplace of service providers in local datacenters selling a specific service. I.e., I could subscribe to a Moonlight service that some dude sells on a pool of high-performance gaming servers.

Essentially the same idea as, say, Xbox Cloud Gaming, or even Google Stadia (it was ahead of its time and honestly shouldn’t have even allowed wireless)…but less closed.