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Aren't data centers largely made of hardware that consumers can't really use? Like they're buying up productive capacitors and directing it into specialized hardware?
Yes and as a result, manufacturers are reorienting their entire production towards that kind of hardware, considerably lowering the supply of consumer electronics. They're simply not producing as much RAM for consumers because it's more profitable to make hardware for datacenters.
Right so the idea of ram and storage becoming affordable is surely years away even if the bubble pops hard tomorrow
Overstock clearance from collapsed data center incoming, but I think by that time the motherboards might be up to DDR6 or 7. Or Maybe China comes out of left field with a game changer that leaves DDR in the dust and forces a new format.