The cloud has its place. A small company can outsource their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud, which CAN be cost effective, especially for standard office applications such as word processors, spreadsheets and email. There's a good reason that Google Docs is quite popular.

But I don't think the cloud is suitable for GPU intensive work in genneral.

One interesting application I've seen is using this tech for a private cloud (using cloud tech within the company itself). Branch offices connect to the main office datacenter to do their work. That can be cost effective, since the branch offices then don't need their own datacenters.

 

The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter

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