IF your looking for an interesting hobby go for it mining is not bad (S3s or S4s or if you are putting it in the garage a spondoolie). Profitability wise it is probably easier and better to invest in a cloud mining company that sells these miners such as hashnest (bitmain).
No on a EV basis cloud mining is going to be less then mining with physical miners. With cloud mining you are going to run the risk that the cloud mining company is going to somehow scam (either by not actually owning any actual mining hardware or by simply stopping payouts)