An M1 Mac Mini is silent even at considerable load, out of the box; the fan policy can be tweaked with a free app (MacsFanControl); also I've never seen it eat

An M1 Mac Mini is silent even at considerable load, out of the box; the fan policy can be tweaked with a free app (MacsFanControl); also I've never seen it eat more than 30ish watts (even when playing games). It's definitely not a budget solution (I mean the price is fair for the performance, unless you don't need $700's worth of horsepower), and macOS could do much better as a server solution, but it's definitely worth considering. Mine is both a desktop/workstation, and actually doing various "server" duties like running Prometheus+Grafana, SSH jumpbox, etc. Bonus? You can actually SSH in while it's sleeping - it will wake up the system, but not the screen(s).