It seems like you'd encounter so many challenges in taking this path, although I think it's awesome that people are seriously looking into this. One point that

It seems like you'd encounter so many challenges in taking this path, although I think it's awesome that people are seriously looking into this. One point that they article doesn't mention is that mobile devices don't have ECC RAM. I'm not very familiarized with the server space, but I thought that was pretty much a standard requirement? e.g. If you're providing IaaS, isn't the risk of falling prey to rowhammer attacks a serious concern? What I'd love to see is something similar but for home users. Instead of continuing to push stuff into third-party services, you can hook up a mix of devices to run services and applications from home. Bring back the distributed internet dream! Most home services don't need tons of power or high availability. The biggest risk is probably with handling data backups, which you can easily solve by encrypting assets and pushing em up to some cloud provider.