• Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Data centers for the unspecified purpose of “we need them”. These idiots are throwing tremendous force behind building these things almost overnight and everywhere. AI alone does not need all these . When this bubble pops it’s going to put us all in the poorhouse but… I bet there will be some cheap ram and hard drives when it goes.

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      2 days ago

      Consumer RAM will likely lag behind in falling prices since that’s not what these centers use. Server equipment would likely plummet in price tho

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      2 days ago

      They’re for the surveillance state. Flock cameras, age verification, other surveillance apparatus, all of it goes through astronomical data. These centers are for that.

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        1 day ago

        I believe you are right. That’s why they’re trying to jam 1800 let state in as fast as possible before the backlash.

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        2 days ago

        Does that mean you’re ceding your claim to the cheap server grade HDDs? Sounds good to me, I’ve got an apocalypse grade media server to fill

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        2 days ago

        I think you’re going to see (like with the new mobos that have gone back to ddr4 in production) a lot of niche market adapters and odd bastard mobos and some new ones made to capitalize on the market.