Lifespan of servers

Cloud Provider

Cloud Provider Average Lifetime in Years Source
AWS 6 Sustainability Report 2023
Azure 6 ? FY-2022 Q4 earnings call
Note: There is no mention of it in an official report (e.g. in their sustainability report)
GCP 6 Forth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results
OVHcloud 5 (max: 9) https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/about/
Scaleway 6 (max: 10) Impact Report 2024
Infomaniak ? (max: 15) https://www.infomaniak.com/de/umweltschutz

🔗 References

@Barroso.etal.2019.DatacenterComputer

barroso.etal.2019.datacentercomputer (pg. 146)

Server costs are computed similarly, except that servers have a shorter lifetime and thus are typically depreciated over 3–4 years.

Some of the world's biggest cloud computing firms want to make millions of servers last longer — doing so will save them billions of dollars every year | TechRadar

Lifespan of servers in the data centers of Alphabet, Amazon and Cloudflare will be increased to 6 years.