Repatriation pays for two Oxfords

Repatriating from the cloud saved enough to buy two Oxide rack-scale computers.

That is the shape of the claim, and the shape is the point. The comparison is not cloud against on-premise, which flatters both sides of the argument depending on who is doing the summing. It is cloud against on-premise plus the hardware you can then own.

The numbers depend entirely on the workload, and the honest version of this argument is that some workloads repatriate and some do not. What repatriation does buy is a floor — a workload you are not renting, on hardware you can examine, at a cost you can see.