What if due to the expense of the centres, lack of enough centres, and the lack of hardware for said centres they are using our devices as a distributed network?
So...
You think because theyve spent all this money and resources on infrastructure...
That they want more infrastructure to the point they'd hijack people's phones and computers to processore data?
How does that solve the problem of them having too much infrastructure and nothing to calculate?
It would literally be the opposite...