Comment by wongarsu

That's $2k/3k to get a box with fully assembled hardware delivered to your doorstep or to a DC of your choice.

Space in your basement or the colo rack of a datacenter along with power, data and cooling is an expense on top. But whatever old servers they have are going to take up more space and use more power and cooling. Upgrading servers that are 5+ years old frequently pays for itself because of the reduced operating costs (unless you opt for more processing power at equal operating cost instead)