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by discodave 3725 days ago
The DCs are assets with 5-20 year lifespans but the servers depreciate over 3-5 years.

Amazon has also been doing a bunch of capital lease shenanigans so they could expand AWS without having to report GAAP losses over the last few years.

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Genuinely curious, who sells, rebuilds, or otherwise "end of lifes" a datacenter after 5 years?