Also the number of supported users does not scale linearly with the number of CPU cores
US population has grown 25% from the year 2000. Other than Anti AI detection, everything worked on the hardware of 25 years ago. Single core performance has gone up more than 25% over the past 25 years.
25 years ago an 8P server had only 8 cores (even if you bought Alpha 21364s) And states needed whole buildings to host their servers. Scaling that down to a single rack is the progress that occurred.
US population has grown 25% from the year 2000. Other than Anti AI detection, everything worked on the hardware of 25 years ago. Single core performance has gone up more than 25% over the past 25 years.
25 years ago an 8P server had only 8 cores (even if you bought Alpha 21364s) And states needed whole buildings to host their servers. Scaling that down to a single rack is the progress that occurred.