Server Useful Life: What Five AI-Infrastructure 10-Ks Actually Depreciate
Server useful life in five 2025–2026 10-Ks runs from 2 to 6 years. Meta lengthened, Amazon shortened a subset, and the dollar gap is recomputed.
Server useful life in five 2025–2026 10-Ks runs from 2 to 6 years. Meta lengthened, Amazon shortened a subset, and the dollar gap is recomputed.
Finance teams still model GPU cluster TCO 2026 with a 24-month breakeven assumption inherited from 2023 cloud quotes. That spreadsheet is obsolete. OEM bundle discounts, colocation density, and power PPA (power purchase agreement) structures compressed the on-premise payback window for sustained workloads to a band most boards had not priced in—even as cloud spot rates … Read more