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The McKinsey report doesn't exactly come to that headline conclusion. It says that there is a point where if you have enough servers it becomes more cost effective to run your own data center, simply because can spread the cost of people and enterprise OS licenses across enough CPUs that the cost drops below the similar cost Amazon charges you, minus Amazon's profit. For small and medium sized enterprises, they claim cloud services are cheaper.


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