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Garlef • 04/24/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

Interesting thought.

But maybe the companies would actually like to at least pipe the communication throught the cloud to get all the usage data. Here's one possible architecture:

local chat client

  - talks to cloud LLM
  - talks to local MCP servers
local MCP server provided by company

  - connects to company cloud (this lets the company collect usage data)
  - forwards tasks to the cloud
local tool (for example photoshop)

  - connects to company cloud to get a users tasks
  - executes the tasks (this lets the company use the users hardware, saving cloud costs)

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daxfohl • 04/24/2025

Hmm, in that example the MCP server is just a thin api wrapper though, so it wouldn't change anything by running locally, right? Like I could see where maybe a TikTok MCP server would benefit from running locally since that would allow it to expose a camera api, but I can't think of anything you could do with a local Airbnb MCP server that you couldn't do with a cloud one.

Nefariously, I guess since these things would be running in the background continuously, that would provide another avenue for companies to spy on you, so that may be a reason companies create local mcps even if there's no other reason to.

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