• Rothe@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    Because they are mainly producing components for datacenters, which will be used for cloud computing. Only consumergrade hardware is overpriced.

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      10 hours ago

      Only consumergrade hardware is overpriced

      Well no, the memory price increase is specifically here to price gouge AI datacenters. If you’re running a non-AI datacenter, and if you’re targeting consumers, like with remote desktop gaming, you have AI-like costs (literally, since servers GPUs are gaming GPUs), but without the enterprise customers. Oh and you also need the best bandwidth possible, because a few added MS might make the “remote” use unbearable, which is an added cost datacenters don’t have to deal with on the same terms.

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        8 hours ago

        That is prety irrelevant since consumers aren’t the customers for AI datacenter hardware, rich megacorporations with unlimited VC capital are.

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          7 hours ago

          Well yes, megacorps have unlimited budget for AI datacenters, that’s my point; consumer facing offerings don’t, such as cloud gaming, and they’re competing for the same price-gouged resource (“competing” is too generous tbh, consumer facing companies are getting curb stomped)