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I have been buying older servers by the truckloads. Older being a year or so. It will be enough to host whatever outside AI that we need for the coming 15-20 years. And the all were great deals, will have them paid for within a month per server. I have my own cage full with empty racks bought from a bankrupt company in AMS.
Not sure who "we" is, but I highly doubt you'll use those servers for 15-20 years.
Silver lining: can you imagine how dirt cheap RAM will be after that bubble has popped? Oh my...
A significant part of this is probably just the hockey-stick growth in the price of memory we have seen in the past 6 months. Would be surprised if this wasn't impacting their bottom line for maintenance.
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So prices will need to increase -- if it makes a senior engineer 10x more productive then coding assistants could easily cost 20x-100x more then what they cost today. Same for video generation.
Given that 10x engineers cost in the millions and that movies cost in the hundreds of millions - this is okay! Edit: HN rate limit won't let me reply, so here - I'm saying that hiring ten senior engineer costs millions. (Not a single 10xer - that's such a debated thing anyway, Fabrice Bellard or not.) AI companies will make bank when they've hooked us all on the tools and raise prices. Companies would likely rather p…
These changes are effective April 1st for existing and new customers. The price increase ratios are also different across product lines. * Cloud (VMs): 38% * Bare metal: 15% * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately) It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set high to discourage customers from adding more memory. AX102 (128 GB RAM) costs €124, AX162 (256 GB RAM) costs €244, but the 128 GB memor…
A significant part of this is probably just the hockey-stick growth in the price of memory we have seen in the past 6 months. Would be surprised if this wasn't impacting their bottom line for maintenance.
"Hard drives already sold out for this year" - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/ai_blamed_again_as_ha...
Time for an AI tax on the hyperscalers.
Silver lining: can you imagine how dirt cheap RAM will be after that bubble has popped? Oh my...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given that 10x engineers cost in the millions and that movies cost in the hundreds of millions - this is okay! Edit: HN rate limit won't let me reply, so here - I'm saying that hiring ten senior engineer costs millions. (Not a single 10xer - that's such a debated thing anyway, Fabrice Bellard or not.) AI companies will make bank when they've hooked us all on the tools and raise prices. Companies would likely rather p…
Yap, that's what people don't want to hear. Right now we are in the cheap phase. Price can easily triple
They can just as easily plummet to a fraction. Really depends on wether there's value for the entities that are paying