When I developed this I was very much thinking of using this to run one-off compute heavy tasks, e.g. compressing a video, running scientific computations or rendering something in Blender. You would just rent a VM for a few hours with the hardware you need, set it up in a few minutes, run your job there and delete it again.
I love this idea! I've never played Dwarf Fortress, but I just tested it on a fresh vps by setting [SOUND:NO] and [PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in df/data/init/init.txt and it seems to work fine!