[q3k]

Cooling and maintenance (part swaps, etc.) are one of many obvious reasons why this is bullshit.

Doesn't stop grifters, tough.

[spullara]

in actual datacenters you often don't even bother swapping parts and just let things die in place until you replace whole racks

[q3k]

Not my experience at a hyperscaler, at least a while back. It definitely made financial sense to swap a small part to get a ~50-100k$ server's capacity back online.