What? You're saying that Hetzner is losing money?
168 * 12 < 4562
168 * 12 < 4562
168 * 12 < 4562
If we assume that Hetzner's spending cap *doesn't* apply...
If I were saying that, I would have said it. Unless "XXX max/mo." doesn't mean what it means in plain English, I _very_ strongly expect that it's very rare for colo customers to suck down all available power 24/7 and that Hetzner has a Stern Talk with customers who do but didn't disclose their intent to do so up front. I mean, you tell me... if you've ever lived in an apartment where your power and water was included in the rent and was metered with a whole-building meter (rather than per-unit meters), did you consume every amp and gallon that could be delivered to you, or did you use just a bit more than what was useful to you in the course of everyday life? [0]
I worked the math the way I did (even doubling or tripling the expected lifetime of the server hardware) to make the numbers as favorable for the "electricity is almost 100% of the cost of computing" side of the argument as they could reasonably be.
Are you saying that I fucked up my math?
[0] And if you're never lived in such an arrangement, ponder instead how you would behave if you did find yourself in one.
No. The numbers indicate that the price of all "full-sized" computing is mostly the cost of hardware, [0] regardless of whether that's "cloud" computing, "on prem" computing, or -er- "colocated" computing.
And by "full-sized" I mean "computing with regular PC or server-type hardware". I'm sure someone could build some absurdly cheap exotic stuff that invalidates all this math, but I don't expect anything that will be found in a datacenter, server room, or on someone's desk at work and whose primary job is doing compute that customers are paying for to be that stuff.
[0] Unless that hardware is acquired at a _deep_ discount... which usually isn't possible if you're buying new hardware. And if you're buying used hardware at a deep discount, that usually means that someone paid a normal price for that hardware at some point.