Pretty sure you could get 1k S9's from Bitmain at somewhat less than retail.
Honestly you would get a better deal from bitfury.
However pay attention to the return even with free power and hardware.
For some hardly worth getting out of bed.
Edit: if you do factor the overhead of real life operating costs minus hardware and power costs. You also have taxable gains and since you have no hardware and power costs you can't claim those operating costs that normaly lower the tax burden.