I think concentrated datacenters of shared devices would be better for the environment than everyone having their own next-gen game console. Especially because the owners of the datacenters (Google) are incentivized quite a bit to lower energy usage, while people at home generally don't even notice how much electricity their game console is using. I mean heck, 40% of the total energy used by game consoles is while they aren't being played.my only concern w/ stadia is environmental impact but I'm excited at the prospect of ppl being able to play games and not having to shell for hardware
Google's pretty good about it, 89% of their datacenter power usage are the servers themselves, only 11% is used for cooling and stuff, and they try to use as much renewable energy as possible.