Hyperscalers either stick that same ASPEED BMC in their systems or roll their own solution based off USB-over-ethernet and/or some kind of janky I2C hack that i

Hyperscalers either stick that same ASPEED BMC in their systems or roll their own solution based off USB-over-ethernet and/or some kind of janky I2C hack that is quite frankly an incomprehensibly terrifying safety nightmare of its own. And by "hyperscalar" I mean "the ODM who actually designed the system". Both Microsoft and Meta née Facebook hyperscaled their data centers using the AST1050. All of the various Open Cloudserver specs call for BMCs: https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/SpecsAndDesigns-old https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/SpecsAndDesigns-old Things haven't changed that much from these specifications.