Panasonic has said demand for backup batteries is rising quickly, and it is largely driven by the expansion of AI infrastructure that requires stable, continuous power. It has already allocated around 80% of its planned output to existing customers, leaving only a limited share for new buyers attempting to scale systems.
If there’s a shortage of AAAs, and my TV remote stops working, we’re gonna have a problem.
I doubt that there’s actually a substantial impact on battery cell production. Might be on rack-mountable batteries containing those cells. But setting that aside:
Panasonic plans to expand lithium-ion cell
Non-rechargable AAA batteries are typically alkaline, and rechargeables are typically NiMH, not lithium-ion.
EDIT: Looking at a handful of rack-mount lithium-ion batteries on Amazon price history using camelcamelcamel, prices are either unchanged or very slightly up. Could be Panasonic looking to get into the news, but it’s not clear to me that there’s a shortage of even rack-mount lithium-ion batteries.
Hit up Costco while you still can
Supply and command, Ricky!
Bubble please burst
It will burst the same way the dotcom bubble bursted.
Just like the internet, AI will be here to stay.
Except AI in its current form is actually mostly useless.
Comparing the dotcom bubble to the AI bubble is like comparing a corn kernel to a corn cob at this point.
The US economy was more spread out and varied back then, and the bubble wasn’t over a third of the entire economy.
And you know, the internet actually had market value and was producing profit immediately at least. AI still has yet to turn any profits.
AI wouldn’t be so bad if the planet wasn’t being turned into computronium.
Another 2008 crisis and not being able to find a job or afford simple necessities, no thanks.
Stop selling stuff you haven’t made yet to people who have no money and haven’t paid. Wtf is wrong with businesses these days?
Why would you think there is anything wrong with them? They now get to scalp people with outrageous prices for the 20% they are selling. If the AI sloppanies pay, they made big sales. If the slop producers producers are unable to pay, they will sell the reserved stuff for normal or even slightly elevated prices. It’s win-win. Basically an excuse for industry wide price-fixing.
I’m tired boss…
That joke aside, does anyone else find swapping out UPS batteries bizarrely satisfying? Every time I heft one of those APC rack batteries and slot em in, I walk out of the server room with a smile on my face!
Fuck, maybe I need to answer the call of the void and work as a tradie XD
i used to go in there and fart
Based!?
So everything at this point?
They‘re going full tech feudalism. There will be a shortage of everything. Especially of electricity and clean water.
Yep, literally the whole habitable layer of our planet.
Anything it takes to set up a data center. I bet network cable is next.
Glad I bought 305M of S/UTP Cat6a 8 months ago for our renovation
Fiber optics jumped 4 times in price locally.
BUY BUY BUY
I wonder if there’s going to be a point in the future where we all look back at this massive over-investment and kick ourselves for making so much expensive electronics waste.
Do we kick ourselves for dotcom bubble?
Apples-to-oranges comparison fallacy.
I for one are going to go shopping for used parts.
They learned nothing from the NFT/“Metaverse” hype cycle, but a century of hindsight might help. There’s always going to be that golden goose that can make you insanely rich based on vague bullshit a lot of people don’t fully understand.
Some entities have too much money to invest in stupid endeavors, money that they took from everyone else and they can lose without worrying too much. It’s a rotten society.
Well yeah but money now.
Hopefully soon - I’d love more homelab upgrades
nope!
Feels like 2007
The just in time economy is running a little bit late.
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