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You're missing the point- the hosts are already there, powered but sitting idle. They are the reserve computing capacity. They must be there for when load incre
by mabbo 10y ago
You're missing the point- the hosts are already there, powered but sitting idle. They are the reserve computing capacity. They must be there for when load increases.
This is why AWS exists, because Amazon needed to have 4X capacity on cyber Monday, but not the rest of the year.
I'm not saying there is any benefit to google cracking VPNs, but simply that they could, that they are an organization with enough hardware to do it.
- blackflame7000 10y agoI think you are forgetting the fact that your standard run of the mill xeons and tesla's in a typical server farm are still far slower than custom hardware accelerated circuits with no clock rate specifically designed for cracking a specific encryption system. There isn't really a justifiable commercial reason to need them on that scale at present.