I've had people on Reddit and on here trying to convince me Google were able to beat and zero latency. In other words that they discovered faster than light communication.
Spoiler alert: they didn't.
Spoiler alert: they didn't.
Google servers are much closer if not in the same datacenter as the game servers... network latency between them is negligible
So, (local input -> network delay -> reply / do graphics locally) == (local input -> network delay -> remote processing -> reply with h264 video). As such it's not going to affect things as much as local steam play which also works pretty well on local lan.