> “Data centers” need not be hyper-centralized
This is a revolutionary concept that you've discovered in 2026 that was more or less universally observed until the 21st century.
It's what I've been saying all along. Data centers are only an evolutionary, external manifestation of things which have existed all along.
When computing resources became accessible to the average company, average companies introduced machine rooms. Below-average companies stashed computers in a closet or non-dedicated space, but the point is, that for decades, ordinary businesses had an ordinary complement of on-prem compute.
The whole point of data centers is economy of scale, consolidation, and centralization. The whole point of "cloud services" is to aggregate services where they can be provided to dozens, hundreds, thousands of tenant companies and individuals, rather than everyone federating their machine rooms and closets in every location everywhere.
It is the ultimate paradigm shift of "thin client connects to time-share servers" being recapitulated. Instead of TN3270 and IBM's mainframes, we have AWS, Chromebooks, and mobile apps.
Why do you think there is a crisis in commercial properties and office space. Many companies have gutted their capex servers and networking gear because they moved to the cloud. New companies basically don't need to build out an enormous, resilient physical plant to support those resources, if they're cloud-based.
So if you believe that the entire tech industry is gonna reverse course, just because of the threat of some DCs being reduced to slag and melted rare earth, you live in a fantasy world, my friend.