Most of the workloads that people with homelabs run, could be run on a 5 year old i5.

A lot of business are paying obscene money to cloud providers when they could have a pair of racks and the staff to support it.

Unless you're paying attention to the bleeding edge of the server market, to its costs (better yet features and affordability) this sort of mistake is easy to make.

The article is by someone who does this sort of thing for fun, and views/attention, and im glad for it... it's fun to watch. But it's sad when this same sort of misunderstanding happens in professional settings, and it happens a lot.