" industry grade servers (bare metal) at multiple, high bandwidth location for the purpose of this project, as well as carrier grade management and monitoring software licenses / ESXi Enterprise, PRTG, among others as well at least one full time engineer to support it. " so since shit vps's let alone shit dedicated servers from providers like server4you.com are not on that level and rackspace.com let alone direct from say level3 or someone are hundreds of dollars a month plus commit bandwidth prices , what do you get out of it? You want to drop apparently hundreds let alone possibly thousands ( sorry I have racks in 5 local data centers here in Seattle and am retired from the industry working in data centers I know the costs and that is before licensing to anything you mentioned let alone what ever is needed that you do not know or have not listed yet ) so what do you get out of it? Gridcoin becomes some Amazon echo IOT device yeah!!!