My ~$200 Moto G has 8 arm cores, 4G ram and 64G EMMC storage. That is actually significantly more powerful than the VPS I pay monthly for, and could easily host git repos, a website, irc bouncer, and much more, and the hardware is already payed for!

I see people complain about silly things using trivial amounts of electricity killing the planet (like Gentoo & building software from source) meanwhile there are huge targets like this that consume unimaginable amounts of power and resources and a lot of waste to go with it.