[ghaff]

Whether or not using a cloud for a given workload today makes sense, the original mantra was absolutely around cost. The basic narrative was that computing was a utility and--especially before local solar was really a thing--how could an individual company compute/generate electricity competitively when they could just consume it off a grid?

[jart]

I thought the original mantra was social mania, after an order came down from the prince of darkness.