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And nobody care enough to do anything about, not even the consumers. Meta is building a new AI and data facility larger than disney land. They have the money thanks to face book and instagram.
But you tell people, "hey if you care maybe do the simplest thing and quit using those products", and all you get is push back. Even here on Lemmy. They would rather their lives be worse than take the slightest inconvenience.
We need a Breaking Bad-type scenario with memory chips.
Big brands already said Fuck you consumer, we're gonna sell to the big boys.
It only saddens me that when the AI bubble bursts people will still buy stuff from the likes of Micron when they start supplying the plebes again.
Don’t bank on the bubble bursting. The real customers big paying customers are not retail but governments who would like live fine tuned summaries of all their citizens. AI is a dual use technology.
It's not a shortage, it's billionaires hoarding the existing supply.
So essentially scalpers.
Yup.
...What forces defend these datacenters? Could a platoon of motivated civilians armed with pump action shotguns carry all the RAM out of one?
They use a different kind of RAM.
It's the capacity to make RAM and the materials required to make RAM that is going to datacenters.
They use a different kind of RAM.
I probably got an adapter lying around somewhere
What's more is they use HBM RAM, which is very complicated to build and has a much lower yield than the much-cheaper-to-make consumer ram.
So, not only are they dedicating all of their resources to billionaire assholes with fantasies of mind control over the masses, but they're also wasting much more materials and energy to make this stupid ram.
Doesn't help they literally said they would stop producing chips and that they have done so.
When this all crashes to the ground it's going to be ugly.
Can’t happen soon enough. Few people want AI and now it will fuck over a bunch of people very directly. No idea how long the investors can keep inflating this bubble now.
the problem is that governments want AI for their surveillance bullshit, especially FSA. they will never let any of these companies fail, and in fact will have no problem blowing $Xbillion of taxpayer money to bail them out
Yeah, so this is the part where the market regulates itself? Y'know, the part where ultra billionaires just dump money by the boatloads to buy up stuff that everyone needs?
Capitalism will ONLY work if we put hard caps on how much wealth a single person can hoard. Billionaires shouldn't exist. Millionaires shouldn't exist. There is no need for them and there is no human right somewhere that says that you really van become one.
Any wealth over 1 million should be taxed 100%, doesn't matter the country.
With that, we can say goodbye to hundreds of problems that plague the world, including this one
Any wealth over 1 million
So you don't understand the value of money, got it. This isn't even a decent retirement anymore. And that's if it's all invested assets. Not even including the absurdity of housing values these days. You can only pull 35-40k from that without hitting the principal.
You can reach 1 million in assets over a decade or so as a middle class worker.
Stop drawing your lines in the sand through your fellow workers! You kill any support you might have with this idiotic crab in a bucket mentality.
You can reach 1 million in assets over a decade or so as a middle class worker.
This might be true in a rich 1st world country. For a small subset of "middle class worker", most live paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by.
...yeah, this is in USD, we're working with a specific assumption of population here. Also, definitionally, anyone barely scraped ng by is NOT middle class. That's the entire point of the designation.
This platform is so incredibly out of touch with reality, especially the more left leaning side of things.
A millionaire these days just means you've paid off your mortgage and have a decent amount put away for retirement.
I only half agree with this assessment. Most million dollar homes are million dollar homes due to billionaires and firms poaching housing from actual families and driving up prices.
Idk WHERE we draw the line, but I absolutely say we start culling from the top and see where we land.
The housing market is effed in a lot of places, no argument from me on that. But stringing up someone with a nest egg for their retirement isn't the solution.
A million ain’t what it used to be. You want to retire so you need to invest. You don’t want to pass laws that make that impossible.
Let me write that down…
Damn so we really aren't always going to have calculators :'(
Data centers will consume..
No, data centers that are slated to be built say they'll consume. If they don't get built because they run out of funding or the bubble bursts, then they won't consume. They're trying really fucking hard to make fetch happen.
