Wouldn’t the argument being made be that those office buildings already exist, whereas the data centers for AI are being built new? So less of a it’s not a problem in offices and more of a we know this is bad so lets try to not build more of it?

And yet sometimes even with modern file sharing hosters I can only get 100KByte/s connections.

Absolutely ture, your comment being? I think they were simply referencing the fact that there is a lot more software out there that can be made to semi easily run on linux/unix based systems.

This feels like it could be exactly the type of thing that causes the car crash in the pilot episode of the Upload TV series.

Not to say that Lumo is actually private, but this claim is not entirely accurate. There is the field of homonorphic encryprion which allows even cloud LLMs to be conpletely private.

Thank you for the detailed reply. I completely forgot about the situation like a Pi-Hole that would slip through the proverbial cracks as being a local device that also sends outbound requests on demand though.