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thewayneMemory costs THIS YEAR is up 171% year over year! As an example, "Corsair's Vengeance RGB 2x16GB 6000MT/s dual-channel DDR5 kit is going for $183 on Newegg (at the time of writing). But if you check pricing history with PCPartPicker, that same kit cost just $91 in July." WOW. I'm really glad I upgraded my system over a year ago!
That's 32 gig of memory. I've got 64 in the PC that I'm on right now. The servers they're using to return AI queries? I expect they're running 256-512 gig or more.
So not only are these server farms consuming land, electricity, water, jet engines, they're now creating shortages of memory for computers. And since they have the money to pre-empt anybody else in the supply chain, they're jumping to the head of the queue with memory manufacturers like Samsung so these prices are going to remain high for several years.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-a-higher-yoy-price-increase-than-gold
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/05/147220/dram-costs-surge-past-gold-as-ai-demand-strains-supply
That's 32 gig of memory. I've got 64 in the PC that I'm on right now. The servers they're using to return AI queries? I expect they're running 256-512 gig or more.
So not only are these server farms consuming land, electricity, water, jet engines, they're now creating shortages of memory for computers. And since they have the money to pre-empt anybody else in the supply chain, they're jumping to the head of the queue with memory manufacturers like Samsung so these prices are going to remain high for several years.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-a-higher-yoy-price-increase-than-gold
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/05/147220/dram-costs-surge-past-gold-as-ai-demand-strains-supply
