@frogzone @dcc @phnt @cereal @jae If you put your server next to the router, fewer hops. If you put your server where there is stable power, you don't need to put a UPS in every house in the country. If you put your server where there is a clean room with climate control then you don't have to keep your house at 10% humidity to avoid corroding sensitive parts.

I think you don't understand why these places exist. There are people in this thread that have been in the game so long they bleed molasses, people committed to individual liberty independent of corporate and government control, all of that, and zero of those people think that datacenters should be abolished.

> i think the term #datacenters gaslights us into accepting an oppressive version of the internet

No, it's a place where people put their computers.