You could run your blog off your machine at home, much like you (hopefully) run your home automation from a machine at home, not a cloud instance. Serving your

You could run your blog off your machine at home, much like you (hopefully) run your home automation from a machine at home, not a cloud instance. Serving your collection of videos from home is a bit ore taxing, should anything become popular. And if you produce popular videos, you want to handle subscriptions and comments, accept payments, fend off spam, and weather the occasional DoS attack. Things quickly snowball into a full-time sysop job. This is to say nothing of businesses that need hundreds of boxes. Putting them all in the office building means you have really hard time moving, e.g. because you grow and need more space, even as we ignore the question of redundant power and internet links in the building. Datacenters most honestly deserve their place. They make life easier for many people, for many reasons. They are not the only thing that should exist, but very certainly they are not a mistake or aberration.