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Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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So basically the consumer market is screwed until the AI bubble bursts and manufacturers (GPUs, RAM, HDDs, etc.) can rebalance their production lines back to the pre-AI division of enterprise vs consumer product.
That's about the size of things, yes.
In 2030 you will own nothing.
And you will be happy.
By 2030 my game "Backups" will in playing time surpass my remaining life expectancy lol
I have a very long breath to dive this through.
No kidding, my 24tb hdd entirely full of GoG launchers has everything handled.
I wish I believed the happy part
I think the happy comes with the unsaid "or else"
You be happy or you be soylent.
Heh, that applies to most of my idiot peers but not me!
I see the writing on the wall and I'm fighting back every way I can.
As workers, we are majorly screwed no matter what happens. Either AI/Robotics takes off, and creates a permanent 50% unemployment class, which MAGA will solve by exchanging basic subsistence needs like shelter and water in work camps, where we will be leased out to corporations as slaves, under the 13th Amendment. Also a good place for any dissenters, journalists, attorneys and judges who won't go along, etc.
Or maybe the bubble will pop, and we'll have a repeat of 2008, except 100 times worse.
No matter what happens, the citizens are going to take it in shorts.
The AI spending and stock is much more localized. It's not grown over more years and integrated into many financial systems. So the results may be much less severe.
Circumstances will be different, and the problems may manifest differently, but it will still be very bad for workers. When those companies are forced to realize that they threw away a decade of profits on nothing, they will make up for it by closing locations, and firing lots of people. Those businesses that don't fold up entirely, that is.
Do you think that this time the lesson will stick? Will we stop lionizing rich, lazy, smug fucks who's protein would be more useful as fertilizer for our crops?
We have to MAKE it stick. We are at a point of no return. We have to take back control of our country, and stop trusting politicians to do right by us. They have proven over and over that they won't.
And a major part of it will be recalibrating our relationship with the wealthy. They think their money has bought them control of anything they want, and we have to HARSHLY disabuse them of that notion. We control and regulate THEM, not the other way around. They will do what's best for this nation, or their fortunes will be re-allocated to better uses.
We can't kick the can down the road any further. Time to crush the can.
It sounds like we are in agreement that examples must be made. A hot stove is a powerful teacher, and seeing a conspecific or two get their fingers burned to a cinder will serve that cause well.
Rather US centric view there. What'll happen to the majority of the world's population?
I can't speak to what the rest of the world might do. Some countries may choose to prohibit fully automated operations.
I just know that in America, any chance to mitigate the damage caused by widespread adoption of automation like fast food operations, will be completely dismissed under a MAGA administration.
Dems should introduce a "Robot Tax" which at least makes up for the lost tax that the now unemployed employee would have been paying. Otherwise we have unemployment rise sharply, as tax collections shrink sharply.
I was just speaking to a MAGA business acquaintance, and HE brought up the idea of the Robot Tax, calling it stupid. When I pointed out the tax situation, he just said "Taxes should be illegal, they're immoral." As if MAGA hadn't given up on morals long ago. He doesn't have a problem with the morality of completely ending an entire industry's employment base, just to increase profits for a billion dollar company.
"Why aren't people reproducing anymore?"
Get a pet, a small dog, or a couple of cats. Seriously. I'm not saying that they'll replace the emotional connection with children, but they come close.
I'm many ways, a pet is even better than a child.
I am sure you will be able to subscribe to use a share along with hundreds of other people for 1 computer at $19.99 a month going forward.