The first part on if servers are box-shaped or not misses the point. The future is not _a_ box, just like the present of running code in the cloud is not _a_ b

The first part on if servers are box-shaped or not misses the point. The future is not _a_ box, just like the present of running code in the cloud is not _a_ box, it's a provider running _multiple_ boxes for you on demand, and transparently updating and replacing them behind the scenes, with individual boxes lying below the threshold of things that you need to care about. Same with serverless "Functions as a service". Of course there are still servers. But you don't have to worry about them any more. Running games in data centers won't live or die depending on the question "is there a box or not?", rather it will depend on "is the latency acceptable?".