fyi, the fact that HDDs and RAM are selling out and increasing in price across the board isn't some nefarious plot to drive people to hardware-as-a-service.
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fyi, the fact that HDDs and RAM are selling out and increasing in price across the board isn't some nefarious plot to drive people to hardware-as-a-service.
the real reason is simultaneously more banal and more ridiculous: hardware and AI companies are racing to squeeze every last cent out of the AI bubble before it pops.
when considering situations like this, y'all need to think like greedy, opportunistic investors, not people trying to make a long-term business plan.
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fyi, the fact that HDDs and RAM are selling out and increasing in price across the board isn't some nefarious plot to drive people to hardware-as-a-service.
the real reason is simultaneously more banal and more ridiculous: hardware and AI companies are racing to squeeze every last cent out of the AI bubble before it pops.
when considering situations like this, y'all need to think like greedy, opportunistic investors, not people trying to make a long-term business plan.
@YKantRachelRead it's a distinction without a difference if that's where market pressures are gonna lead in an environment with higher part scarcity even without a conscious effort tbh
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@YKantRachelRead it's a distinction without a difference if that's where market pressures are gonna lead in an environment with higher part scarcity even without a conscious effort tbh
@roughling the difference in my view is that in the bubble scenario, the market will inevitably be flooded with cheap PC parts once the bubble pops and liquidation of all those unused silicon wafers occurs
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fyi, the fact that HDDs and RAM are selling out and increasing in price across the board isn't some nefarious plot to drive people to hardware-as-a-service.
the real reason is simultaneously more banal and more ridiculous: hardware and AI companies are racing to squeeze every last cent out of the AI bubble before it pops.
when considering situations like this, y'all need to think like greedy, opportunistic investors, not people trying to make a long-term business plan.
@YKantRachelRead "hardware-as-a-service" is just a bonus to them.
It may not be tge priority, or have even been a goal to begin with, but someone saw the possibility and ran with it.
The Rent-A-PC market only started to grow after AI techbros started eating into supply.
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@roughling the difference in my view is that in the bubble scenario, the market will inevitably be flooded with cheap PC parts once the bubble pops and liquidation of all those unused silicon wafers occurs
@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems @roughling@thebleakest.link The other thing to bear in mind it that most of these components have a 2-3 yrs TTL in datacenter deployments. So 36 months from not the secondary / used market will be flooded.
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