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We all have devices in our pockets powerful and well connected enough to do just about everything we use "the cloud" for except for large scale data collection for advertising and surveillance. And even then these devices are still capable of being used for surveillance and advertising effectiveness monitoring, just not as well. If our government and the supposedly wise hand of the free market cared more about global warming than global surveillance and financial dominance, they would have already shuttered most of the data center capacity in the US. Then again there are still mining farms turning electricity into monopoly money.
Idk what I'm trying to say here, I'm just bitterly disappointed in the state of the society I live in.
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Unironically I think the world would be a better place if all the largest data centers went boom.
Yeah
We did make it like 325,000 years without data centers
I completely agree in terms of personal computing like storing photos, documents, notes, and so on. At most, they could be encrypted locally and stored remotely so that multiple devices can use the data.
There are still plenty of use cases for server-oriented data processing. Most "infrastructure" related things work well that way. Cases where data needs to be quickly read and written from a number of different locations and the information isn't really secret or personal. I am biased since I work on one of those systems. But there are so many internal systems at companies that really don't need end-to-end encryption either. Although maybe some day things will still move in that direction.