“2048 x86 cores per rack”

Probably a lot more than any sane person would pay for a home server.

But I won’t stop you from trying! Wouldn’t it be cool to have that plugged into your local network?

I'd get one. Would connect hot side to home HVAC and just run scalability tests of my code. That'd be hot, nice and expensive.

And possibly noisy. Yes, noisy.

I'm adding one of these to the if-I-win-the-lottery list. Nifty home media server AND it'll probably keep the house warm during the winter.

Now I just like the idea of you telling the electrician that you need a 3-phase >5kVA PDU. :)

Hahaha I have a good source of VFDs which may be able to do the job.

for what they're advertising there, on the order of $1mm, based on underlying hardware costs.

Actually, standard Azure rack is on the order of $1.1 mm of hardware depending on SKU if I am not mistaken. So I would guess, it could be more like $2 mm. There is the aspect of management and other vendors Dell/EMC + VMware like you to pay way more than the hardware costs for e.g. VXRail/ vSphere licences. That is the real target.

And maintenance. I like the idea of having to give them a key to your house to replace a disk when the SMART alert phones home. :)