Comment by gomerspiles

Spending this much on a server's CPUs has been a pretty normal thing in DC/server rooms for a very long time, the rise of X86 in servers is a similar cheapening like the rise of ARM. It actually meant a lot of redesigning of applications to work with many entirely separate machines instead of the smallest large server that could cover the full load and maybe around an application process per core, all sharing direct access to the same storage, etc.