This is literally an above-the-fold advertised feature of vPro:<p>> Remote Manageability<p>> Remotely power up, update, and repair PCs outside of the firewall, even if they’re out-of-band1, to help your users from virtually anywhere.<p><a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/now/itheroes.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/now/itheroes.html</a><p>> With features like hardware-level remote keyboard, video, and mouse control (KVM)1 3 Intel AMT allows you to discover, repair, and help protect networked computing assets as easily as if working in person.<p><a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/vpro/active-management-technology/overview.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...</a><p>Morale of the story here seems to be to actually bother to spend 5 seconds figuring out what you bought?