it would depend heavily on costs and tangible benefits versus e.g., renting something from cloud providers. its a new vista, its anybody's guess how things will

it would depend heavily on costs and tangible benefits versus e.g., renting something from cloud providers. its a new vista, its anybody's guess how things will look in five years, but when Intel's CEO is touting the era of the "AI PC" [1] their projection must be that a certain market will form around compute intensive local computing (largely prompted by the popularity of LLM/AI but that just one domain). on the second branch of your question, indeed a local "supercomputer piece" should have a sufficient number of CPU/GPU's to pack meaningful computational power. this way it would also require and enable the right kind of tooling and programming that scales to larger sizes. given that algorithms can enhance practically any existing application (productivity, games etc), this might be a case of "build it and they will come" [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-ceo-get-ready-for-the-ai-pc https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-ceo-get-ready-for-the-ai-pc