Servers: What do they really cost?

Really interesting post on Forbes.com about how much a server really costs, some excerpts are following:

• Spending $2,500 on a server really means spending between $8,300 and $15,400 in facility capital to provide the necessary space for housing the server and powering it.
  

• A single rack of blade servers will consume $1 million in facility capital. Pretty staggering! And this is the underlying source of the boom in data-center construction driven by the need to house 5 million additional servers.

Read more here.