[avidphantasm]

If you start buying minis, then you need to house, power, and cool them. So you are building a mini data center. If you are building a small data center, economies of scale will drive you to want to build larger and larger. However, this gets expensive and neighbors tend to not like data centers (for good reason). To me this seems like asymmetric warfare against hyper-scalers.

[xhkkffbf]

Yup. This way, the people pay for the air conditioning themselves and they probably don't even notice the extra cost.

[edbaskerville]

& if they live in a cool place, they're getting a small space heater as a bonus.