[sarlalian]

Datacenter costs are weird. The first big cost is having a datacenter. However once you have the space, power, cooling and that part makes sense, then the actual hardware going into it can have a pretty decent premium and still be highly competitive with AWS. It will also depend heavily on what you are doing and producing, if the answer to that is a large amount of data, and it needs to transit out of AWS, suddenly the cost of a pretty large datacenter is really cheap in comparison. AWS egress fees have a markup that will make your accountants panic. From a hardware standpoint, once you need GPU compute or large amounts of RAM, the prices get pretty dumb as well.