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Can you expound on that? I'm not sure I get what you're implying.
That Trump makes us very motivated to stop relying on American tech.
You waited far too long.
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> imagine that these devices or services can no longer procure RAM, SSD or HDD Why would I imagine something so far out from what will realistically happen? Again, a lot of doom and gloom over very unrealistic scenarios. Where are you even getting this from, YouTube channels? Of course if there is no RAM or flash-storage at all available, eventually hardware will be unfeasible. But when we've experienced these sort o…
You don't have to look too far back in history -- look at the supply squeeze during covid, or even just during the Suez closure by the Evergiven.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you expound on that? I'm not sure I get what you're implying.
Pretty sure they are implying that the actions of the current president/administration are causing people to re-evaluate US dependencies. I don't really understand the first half
1. There's no meaningful European competition.
2. Trump is making everyone scared to use US hosting.
So they're leveraging for extra profits.
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America doesn't manufacture DRAM either, this is all South Korea and Taiwan.
??? Micron has DRAM megafabs in both Idaho and New York state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micron_Technology
Are those plants still functional after CHIPS act was axed? I thought they mainly produce in Asia now.
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#245It seems we will run out of hardware by March? "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.
Why tax something that the market will figure out? This is normal and things will sort themself out.
They didn’t the last two memory crunches. Litigative action figured it out first.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure they are implying that the actions of the current president/administration are causing people to re-evaluate US dependencies. I don't really understand the first half
I think in the first part they are implying that there are very few independent companies to turn to. (I also prefer comments that are clear without insinuations).
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This doesn't solve the issue that globalism caused. Europe doesn't make DRAM nor has the know-how to quickly bring factories online which usually take 10+ years. We are tied to American economy and if AI companies start driving prices up not only DRAM but basically everything will become more expensive.
Isn’t there also basically 0 American DRAM?
Micron Technology, Inc. is an American semiconductor company that manufactures computer memory
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You might be right. Sorry. I should have said they haven't increased prices for existing dedicated servers since my direct experince is only there. Actually until about 3-4 years ago when the whole world went to shit, using a server for a year or two then upgrading to a better server for cheaper, was the norm. In that environment, you would naturally not have price increases.
I also don't think you're right that it never happened for the dedicated servers :) I'm only using Hetzner for dedicated servers, and found an email from 2022 where they mention price updates: > Unfortunately, we are forced to increase the prices on these Server Auction models [...] old price 37.60 Euro -> 59.29 Euro, comes into effect 2022-03-03 Citing raising energy prices at that time.
Probably not for existing customers (their existing servers). I don't recall anything other than the IPv4 related increase in the past. I might be wrong of course as I've demonstrated already.
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Every RAM producer is stopping their consumer grade RAM production to provide ECC-RAM and VRAM now. Micron discontinued and closed down Crucial brand as a whole. So, getting systems with higher RAM capacity is getting harder (from laptops to smartphones). So, for a couple of years, we need to stop using Electron so much and use what we have efficiently. Data centers, esp. AI hyperscalers do not care about efficiency…
I have a silent hope that because of this change we all will get ECC ram and that consumer CPUs will get proper support for them.
AMD's RYZEN already supports it. ASUStor's latest generation of NAS devices come with AMD x86_64 processors and ECC RAM as a standard, but ECC RAM in SODIMM format was not cheap, even when the RAM was cheap, either.
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Due to lack of memory leaks which will stop increasing RAM prices?
That, and also because rust compiler is a very good guardrail & feedback mechanism for AI. I made 3 little tools that I use for myself without knowing how to write a single rust line myself.
I can see that a reality but I am more comfortable using Golang as the language compared to rust given its fast compile times and I have found it to be much more easier to create no-dependices/fewer-dependencies project plus even though I wouldn't consider myself a master in golang, maybe mediocre, I feel much easier playing with golang than rust.
The resource consumption b/w rust and golang would be pretty minimal to figure out actually for most use cases imho.