I hope China floods the market with cheap RAM and absolutely destroys these scumbag memory companies.

This “top democrat” should be ousted too.

The internet is experiencing a sloppy death.

We know about that extra 10% to 15% exception by custom.

They actually get angry and insulted at “just” 10% to 15%. The standard has somehow risen to 20% at a minimum!

The market can remain irrational until the bag can be safely passed onto retail and/or bailouts are secured.

$185 is still way above the already ridiculous IPO price of $135. If this market made any sense, it wouldn’t have gotten this high in the first place, but since we’re here, it should really continue dropping. However, knowing how this market is, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just a momentary dip before going back up for some dumb made-up reason.

They’re going to get that $300 billion one way or another.

Neither can AI, unless you want a garbage heap of a codebase.

The closure of the strait impacts helium supplies used for chip manufacturing which will impact data center build-out, so maybe the result is lower electricity costs overall.

Sure, but I assume it’s easier to collect wastewater for proper disposal than the air pollutants.

Are you not aware that the “dictators who were killing their people” live was being used on Iran during the protests? Does this mean you’re okay with bombing Iran now?

Debt isn’t a problem until it suddenly is. That inflation you’re brushing off can get worse, eventually to the point where they’re printing money just to stay afloat. We’re already at the point where $1 trillion goes to just paying the interest on the debt each year.

It’s a sensor relying on image recognition, which is only as reliable as the image recognition software. The more clever software tries to be, the more potential failure states that exist.

They’re still planning on making a new Xbox? Sometimes I forget there’s an Xbox console anymore.

How much do executive payouts, lobbying, and marketing costs take out from those profit margins?

Election interference only matters sometimes, I guess.

They can be trained to understand the distinction.

No it can’t because of how LLMs work. All “safety” built on top of models now are just band-aids and bubble gum stuck in strategic areas hoping that cases get caught.

There are multiple goals in mind such as surveillance, pumping the stock market, taking control out of people’s hands, excuses to do things like lay people off, etc. In this case or in general for local governments, it’s a matter of a select number of people getting a lot of money in their pockets and thus pushing for these data centers to happen.

One problem with capitalism is that everything is for sale, including the government. The AI industry is intentionally positioning themselves as “too big to fail” so that they can guarantee a government bailout. As for the dotcom bubble, sure the smaller players were allowed to fail, but that just meant more room for the larger players like google and amazon to take over and now they’re definitely too big to fail. With AI, we already have a small handful of huge players and they’ve convinced the government that this is a matter of national security.

On top of that, people’s retirements are more tied to the stupid stock market than ever before, so the government will use that as an excuse to bail out these companies, hence the rush to IPO and enter indexes.

The more that franchisees can bear to pay in rent, the more corporate can charge, so the franchisees hiring fewer people is maximizing shareholder value even if indirectly.