As things stand today even when doing research tasks, time spent by model is >> than fetching websites. I don't see it changing any time soon, except when some deals happen behind the scenes where agents get to access CF guarded resources that normally get blocked from automated access.

While data centres indeed have awesome internet connectivity, don’t forget the bandwidth is shared by all clients using a particular server.

If you have 100 mbit/sec internet connection at home, a computer in a data centre has 10 gbit/sec, but the server is serving 200 concurrent clients — your bandwidth is twice as fast.