For years, the increasing energy costs in Germany have become a major factor in our overall operating costs, and they put us at a serious disadvantage compared to our international competitors. We watched the development of electricity prices at the end of last year with great concern, and discussed various possible scenarios for how we could adapt to them. In the end, we decided to bear the additional costs for a large number of our product lines ourselves, and to not pass the costs onto our customers.
However, to do this, a price adjustment for some servers from the Server Auction were unavoidable. The prices for these servers were the same as the operating costs before the electricity cost increase. We calculated the price change for each individual model based on the hardware installed in each one. This is what led to the large differences in the price increase percentages.