The moment I was certain that online poker was rigged was when I was contacted to work for one of these companies (one that was scamming everyone and went bust). These guys have a huge, and I mean HUGE datacenter, with more than a thousand servers to run a simple online ecommerce platform and a poker server.
The poker server only receives a few bytes of data per hand, even a million simultaneous hands is just a few megabytes and most part of processing occurs on the poker client. To think that you need a thousand servers to run this is laughable. My complany runs an ecommerce site for more than a million clients and all it takes is about 30 servers in a rack.
So why do they need all this computing power ?? I tell you why, to figure, in real time, a way to put anyone with a winrate on the absolute low end of the variance curve and keep the money raking in the system for as long as possible. Now thats something that yes, requires a lot of computing power ...
Does this mean that online poker in unbeatable ? Not so. It is beatable for a very tiny margin and you have to learn a way to deceive the software in order to do that. Good luck at the tables