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Power Supplies and CPU Coolers are Next For Price Hikes, 6-10% Increase Expected (www.techpowerup.com)
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For raw materials like copper and silver, significant demand comes from industrial processes, particularly in modern data centers. Modern AI data centers consume large amounts of copper wiring both internally and for external connections.

Just more AI fucking everyone over.

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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Bubble bursting won't mean prices will go down significantly. Coin mining doubled GPU prices. When it ended, prices went down around 20%.

I expect the same with everything else. Ram will have doubled and then "crisis over!" will mean a 20% decline from paying triple what Ram cost 6 months ago.

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Sure but the bubble not bursting means it will keep going up 500% every 6 months

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