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Yes it could.
It could also be on a border router.
It could also be somewhere else in your network, although not too far away (as it obtain stats from the border routers and injects routing changes on them).
PS:
My experience has been the controller function doesn't put much load on the router. I've mainly run the controller on a border router but I've also had 7200s controlled by a 2811.
