re: the climate aspect, it's actually better to have some services like email operating in a data center. Think about all the idle no-op cycles your home email

re: the climate aspect, it's actually better to have some services like email operating in a data center. Think about all the idle no-op cycles your home email server is burning through. A million individual email servers will consume orders of magnitude more electricity than those same million+ accounts hosted in a data center. Efficiencies of scale.