This mess is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Well… The ram manufacturers will have a great surprise when AI doesn’t continue growing exponentially and all their other customers have died.
But at least we made the line go up this quarter I guess.
If I wrote a fictional story about a critical component of modern society being manufactured on a single island, and then had that island invaded by the neighboring nation causing the rest of the world to collapse, I’m pretty sure people would dismiss the story.
But here we are. Any country not scrambling to build local fabs are in danger.
I love how we have to protect Taiwan against Chinese annexation because the World relies on their chips, but when extremely large corporations basically take away the World’s supply of chips it is supposed to be fine.
At least with the Crypto and now the AI craze we are at least getting used to shortages from the eventual war of the chips
How about instead of building concentration camps, we build chip factories, and employ all the people we’re abusing? Then they can spend their earnings, and pay taxes, and stimulate the economy.
Or we can lock them up, create a chip shortage, destroy otherwise viable companies, and keep our economy limping along, satisfied with the false metric of the Stock Market as a score.
Yeah, I wouldn’t give the current admin any ideas. It’d be less of a “employ all the people” and more of a “work will set you free” type of arrangement.
I think they are gonna do that without any tips from BarneyPiccolo
Coming to a potato farm near you
But just think of how full all the troughs will be once these new data centers go into full swing.
But it’s not a bubble!
The longer this goes on the more it seems like the explicit goal rather than a side effect.
Market manipulation, innit?
bingo. And any companies that do make it out the other end of this will transition to subscriptions for their stuff. HP is already rolling this out for their laptops. The end goal is to stop people from owning stuff but pay a monthly subscription on it. and if you want to own a device outright, prepare to pay a premium.
Guess who will ‘help’ these companies in the future. It’s a power grab, plain and simple
I saw a post that they plan on most office jobs will be obsolete in the next 2 years.
Sorry about the RAM prices but we needed it to make you unemployed, thank you for understanding.
‘But in return we’ll get free healthcare and a basic income, right?’ ‘Nope 😂’
In all developed nations you have the first one already.
