So, I want to allow some of my friends, who are students learning data science to utilize the 16GB RAM on my server. Although, the more lucrative thing on a server is the very fast download speed. So GBs of data need not be downloaded to their local computer to work with it.
And the best thing is, they can run intensive tasks overnight(which is not trivial on a laptop) which can boost their research.
scraping data from the internet 24x7 is also a plus.