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Autonomous buildings can increase security and reduce environmental impacts by using on-site resources ( such as sunlight and rain ) that would otherwise be wasted.

Autonomy often dramatically reduces the costs and impacts of networks that serve the building, because autonomy short-circuits the multiplying inefficiencies of collecting and transporting resources.

Other impacted resources, such as oil reserves and the retention of the local watershed, can often be cheaply conserved by thoughtful designs.