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RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices (www.pcworld.com)
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Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.

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[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Its not just electricity but also water consumption, and noise pollution if not particulate pollution too.

They provide little benefit to the surrounding communities with very few jobs by design and just consume local resources at usually discounted bulk rates to sell a service that possibly nobody locally would be in the market for

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have said this before somewhere, but this feels like something that would be very well suited for places where electricity prices have gone extremely low due to "too many solar panels".
Also, in places with excess geothermal output etc.
What are these companies really basing their installation locations upon?

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