I've seen an enterprise where machines were bought with N CPUs. They actually contained 2N CPUs, and the enterprise could hire and enable extra CPUs on a month

I've seen an enterprise where machines were bought with N CPUs. They actually contained 2N CPUs, and the enterprise could hire and enable extra CPUs on a monthly base. They could also buy them outright. Year after year, the enterprise under-provisioned these machines. Severely, as in basically using 2N CPUs most of the time. 'Yeah, last year we had to pay a fortune, but that was exceptional. Surely this year nothing unexpected will happen the whole year. We made a plan, but unlike last year, it is perfect'. Engineers pointed out severe holes in the plans year after year, but management didn't want to hear it: It would break the cost-cuts in the budget. Intel will make a fortune on this in the Enterprise.