These kinds of features are standard for servers and nobody bats an eye ("out of band management"). You need them unless you want to attach a remote KVM to ever

These kinds of features are standard for servers and nobody bats an eye ("out of band management"). You need them unless you want to attach a remote KVM to every single server. AMT is just that - out of band management. Intel's implementation is a lot more secure than, say, SuperMicro IPMI which had its fair share of issues. You can disable SuperMicros IPMI though by pulling out the PCI card, though :-)