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I'm basically just making a guess, but given how efficient small heat pumps are, it seems like gains you'd get from scaling them up would be lost in the process of moving the cooled refrigerant/air farther.
In my area 2 recently constructed, supposedly energy efficient, apartment buildings went with individual heat pumps for each apartment instead of central heating/cooling. There might be some other reasons for it, though.