I have this dislike of the "cloud"

Like, the cloud/data centres are fine for things like google searching, youtube, cyberspace :), netflix, corporate infrastructure, etc.

But things like AI, and data storage should not be handed over to the cloud, for over 80% of people. Most people have simple tasks they use AI for, which they have no reason to use a cloud-run AI model for, and with the average compute (8-16gb memory, etc) the models you could run on them is more than sufficient for the general public, and for power-users, they know how to optimise their models, or they already have powerful hardware so it doesn't make much impact to them either. For storage, if we put in the same R&D into storage minitiuarization, reliability and easy-to-setup (things like a NAS), the cloud reliance problem would be mainly fixed.

I don't care if companies have to use the cloud, but general public shouldn't want to/have to use the cloud for things that they can do locally. What's your take on this?