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There are companies dealing with used and refurbished hardware. There are loads of PCs around that are not bloated enough for Win11, but still make good home servers. Depending on specs and prices, buy more than one for extra RAM, a second SSD, and spare parts.
An old laptop from about 13 years ago barely breaks a sweat running proxmox and a handful of containers and two vms.
Waste not want not. Plus it comes with a keyboard, touchpad and monitor. Plus, built in ups. You might need to add a USB Ethernet dongle but you don't have to.
I bet just about anyone you know has their old laptop in a drawer somewhere. They'd probably give it to you.