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I think you can find better cloud prices (outside of aws) that make sense. Running a datacenter is hard, running your own servers (software only) is much easier.

I can get this dedicated server in Germany (courtesy of hetzner.com) for 40 eur / 47 usd per month (albeit usd is relatively weak right now): CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core RAM: 64 GB DDR4 Drives: 2x 512 GB NVMe SSD

Building an equivalent computer would cost me around 1300 eur / 1540 usd without VAT (assuming the RAM is ECC).

Let's assume a 12.5 eur / 15 usd of electricity per month and the computer will pay itself in 2 years. It's hard to price maintenance, issues and hardware failures, but I feel like this computer could last 4-5 years, making the price roughly 2x.