It's not one big pile of money. Business expenditures are treated differently depending on what you spend it on. My loose understanding is that capex (e.g. har

It's not one big pile of money. Business expenditures are treated differently depending on what you spend it on. My loose understanding is that capex (e.g. hardware) and opex (e.g. salary) are treated differently in a lot of ways. Some of it is taxes, there are deductions available for opex that don't apply to capex, at least in the US. Also, you can cut your expenses on opex to balance your budget (e.g. layoffs), but it's harder to recoup the sunk cost on capex. Cloud desktops turn some capex into opex. Depending on how many employees you have, it can be a sizeable chunk of change. I still think it's only worth it in specific edge cases, though.