I would pull out the existing drives, put them in boxes for the FBI, and power down the servers. As customers sign up for machines and storage, buy replacement

I would pull out the existing drives, put them in boxes for the FBI, and power down the servers. As customers sign up for machines and storage, buy replacement drives and power up the servers with the new drives. It sounds to me like they are looking for a way to keep their income flowing with servers that they will have a hard time renting out in the near future. In other words, they just got hit with a huge excess of server capacity that they are going to have a hard time renting out short term (and probably longer term as well).