Yeah these are all very valid issues! I imagine it would depend on the specific use case and how much computing power you need. Also the energy going into the production of the phone should be considered as well.
Being able to remove the battery and run from AC would be very helpful I think. Phones used to be able to do this but a lot of modern ones don't have removable batteries which is a problem of it's own.
My VPS use is actually fairly bursty though. It spends 99% of the time asleep since I don't do much with it. Even a small website/webserver or hosting cgit and git over ssh would be very light and almost entirely burst loads for me!
Being able to remove the battery and run from AC would be very helpful I think. Phones used to be able to do this but a lot of modern ones don't have removable batteries which is a problem of it's own.
My VPS use is actually fairly bursty though. It spends 99% of the time asleep since I don't do much with it. Even a small website/webserver or hosting cgit and git over ssh would be very light and almost entirely burst loads for me!