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#31221 Azath Vitr (D'ivers

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Posted Yesterday, 12:18 PM

Tsundoku, on 10 December 2025 - 10:03 AM, said:

WTF? Why are component prices going up that much?

From the New York Times:

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The A.I. Boom Is Driving the [US] Economy[...]

[...] A.I. developers and chipmakers are raking in hundreds of billions of dollars in investments. Data centers the size of theme parks are sprouting around the country. Utilities are racing to build new power plants and to bring old ones out of retirement to meet surging electrical demand [...]

Everything tied to artificial intelligence is booming. Just about everything else is not. [...] investments in computer equipment and software accounted for more than 90 percent of growth in [US] gross domestic product in the first half of the year.

https://www.nytimes....om-economy.html

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#31222 QuickTidal

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Posted Yesterday, 02:41 PM

Bubble. The word you’re looking for is BUBBLE ai.zath

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#31223 amphibian

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Posted Yesterday, 05:24 PM

It's absolutely a bubble and the data centers to use these chips, GPUs, or RAM don't exist yet. So these are literally sitting in a series of warehouses.

https://www.wheresyo...-so-what-is-it/

This is close to a panic.

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#31224 Cause

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Posted Yesterday, 09:22 PM

Yeah it’s absolutely crazy.

Crucial one of the big 3 Ram manufacturers has basically said it’s abandoning personal computers and gamers and will focus entirely on ai buyers. That can’t be normal. Which means Ram prices for standard users will skyrocket.