The market for this kicked off in the past year or two. Amazon is already on the cloud rendering bandwagon in some fashion[0], and Google joined them recently[1

The market for this kicked off in the past year or two. Amazon is already on the cloud rendering bandwagon in some fashion[0], and Google joined them recently[1], so it's coming - it won't really be here, of course, until another generation of software comes through and does the integration work. [0] http://techreport.com/news/25615/amazon-web-services-adopts-nvidia-grid-for-cloud-rendering http://techreport.com/news/25615/amazon-web-services-adopts-... [1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2599080/google-buys-zync-for-large-scale-cloud-rendering.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2599080/google-buys-zync-for-...