I wander if now that you can get a rack mount Mac Pro with Apple Silicon (launched yesterday, the second coming of XServe), running server workloads on them with Asahi Linux becomes a viable route for some people?
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support#m2-d...
Maybe not quite possible to do today but if Asahi keeps up the pace they've made so far I bet it will be soon.
It helps that Apple has popular hardware so there's a good bit of people out there interested in developing support for Apple processors.