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@crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange There's no such thing as a 5-6,000 sqft datacenter [1], and I'm not sure they can practically / cost-effectively scale down that far. Datacenters have large fixed costs: land, usually new utility connections, redundant power feeds, generators and batteries, redundant fiber connections, lots and lots of legal and administrative work like negotiating all the above before they reach byte 1, etc. Some of those scale directly with the size of the resulting datacenter, but others don't scale at all, or only partially scale, so they're proportionally more expensive for a smaller facility. A small datacenter is probably 100,000 sqft these days. I can't see them getting much smaller than that. As others have noted, datacenters also have nothing to do with providing internet service to the community they're in. That's a separate business. [1] Unless you count things like "this company has one floor for its server room" and call that a datacenter.