Doesn't a lease mean that you take custody of the goods and return them at the end? IIUC this is much more like a service akin to cloud offerings. Who pays th

Doesn't a lease mean that you take custody of the goods and return them at the end? IIUC this is much more like a service akin to cloud offerings. Who pays the power bill for the server(s) subscribed to? Is the subscription one-for-one with serial numbers? Or if you deactivate the server and activate it again later could you get a different one?