$175,000 computer server package acquired by mayor flagged as suspicious due to an apparent 1,300% markup

intel stock cooler says it all.

A single spinning disk visible, no redundancy

This doesn't even look like it would cut it as a desktop for any remotely intensive work, let alone as a server

Edit: that might be the corner of a second disk down there

Edit 2: okay read down the article and this is 16 crappy computers which is marginally better

That's how corruption looks like in practice....

Did the article call it corruption?

There's no way that PSU is even worth the $70 the article says is normal, someone got fleeced

Did they forget a zero in that percentage?

Probably for the VMware license :P

Not unlike the $400,000,000 that was allocated to build the tent city known as Alligator Auschwitz.