The posts on low tech magazine are interesting but I feel that the solar power idea doesn't make much sense. Why are we running an entire OS and device for a si

The posts on low tech magazine are interesting but I feel that the solar power idea doesn't make much sense. Why are we running an entire OS and device for a single static site? This could easily sit on a data center and use virtually no power and actually no power while its not being requested unlike a rpi that has to sit online constantly waiting for requests.