[jrockway]

I'm interested too and have pretty much come to the same conclusion as you. There are workstations like this: https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-emag-64bit-arm-workstatio...

It's a middle ground between Raspberry Pi and a 128 core they sell to cloud providers. For the money, you can probably get more work done with an amd64 workstation, unless you're paying someone to generate your electricity by riding a bicycle or something. (Cooling and power matter to cloud-scale datacenters, but not really for one computer in a room that you use to generate your income.)

[drdaeman]

Goodness gracious, five grand, only 3 drive bays, and that's without drives? My whole AMD machine (motherboard, RAM, PSU, NVMe SSD, case - basically everything except for the HDDs for the bulk storage) costed me slightly less than $2k, and I've surely overprovisioned.