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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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Data centers for the unspecified purpose of "we need them". These idiots are throwing tremendous force behind building these things almost overnight and everywhere. AI alone does not need all these . When this bubble pops it's going to put us all in the poorhouse but... I bet there will be some cheap ram and hard drives when it goes.
They're for the surveillance state. Flock cameras, age verification, other surveillance apparatus, all of it goes through astronomical data. These centers are for that.
I believe you are right. That's why they're trying to jam 1800 let state in as fast as possible before the backlash.
Too bad server grade anything doesn't fit into consumer products.
I think you're going to see (like with the new mobos that have gone back to ddr4 in production) a lot of niche market adapters and odd bastard mobos and some new ones made to capitalize on the market.
Does that mean you're ceding your claim to the cheap server grade HDDs? Sounds good to me, I've got an apocalypse grade media server to fill
I am, yeah. You can have my rations
AMD has built a Radeon with HBM memory in 2015, they can do it again.
I just installed an HBA to run cheap server HDDs on. That was fairly easy.
Consumer RAM will likely lag behind in falling prices since that's not what these centers use. Server equipment would likely plummet in price tho
You're going to see a brisk business in repurposing.