A very large CDN supplier emailed us today to say they are having to increase prices because their energy costs have risen up to 2x and servers are now 1.5x the price.

Neil Craig

Sounds like AI crap making everything else more expensive, again.

Gary :party_porg:

@tdp_org I was at Cisco Live in Amsterdam this time last year, and their two main marketing pushes that year were effectively "AI IN SWITCHES, AI IN ROUTERS, AI IN FIREWALLS, AI EVERYWHERE!!!!11!!!111!!!🥳", and "You should be thinking about the planet and cutting down on your energy usage. Here are all our new power management products".

In one of the Power/Enviro sessions I had the temerity to ask how this aligned with the big AI push, and was met with a stony silence

Matt Birch

@tdp_org No doubt there. Although despite their size, at least the energy costs should have been factored into their pricing to you initially so I hope it’s a future increase in price. Sorry, thinking rationally But yeah, at least we can all look at shitty AI crap online

Simon Zerafa (Status: :meowBox: 😊)

@tdp_org

So I wonder what inflation will look like in six months time?

The Penguin of Evil

@tdp_org also in many countries genuine demand supply mismatches caused by underinvestment and in one by someone breaking all the renewables. Easy to blame AI and it's certainly part of it but not all