AI to blame for RAM shortages:

SK Hynix to Scale Up 1c DRAM Production For GDDR7 & SOCAMM Modules, Likely to Target the AI Industry
We have reported on memory shortages extensively in recent days, and the supply chain is already preparing for adjustments by increasing production capacities. According to a report by the Korean media outlet Hankyung, SK hynix plans to expand its DRAM production capacity by more than eight times by 2026, to meet the requirements of CSPs and companies such as NVIDIA/AMD. It is reported that at SK hynix's Icheon campus, 1c DRAM production is expected to increase by 140,000 units per month, currently at 20,000 units, which represents a significant rise.
The capacity increase will be allocated towards products like GDDR7 modules and low-power SOCAMM memory, that has seen massive adoption over the months in AI servers. SK hynix isn't the only company looking to expand production; Samsung, Micron, and other suppliers are also proceeding rapidly to increase production numbers, as the demand for memory brought in by inference is gigantic right now.
However, it's still important to note that efforts to upscale DRAM production will be targeted entirely towards the AI industry; hence, for the consumer segment, there's still a long way ahead before shortages end.

Ravenprose said:

Always something seems to be bloating the price of technology. A few years ago, it was crypto mining taking all our graphics cards; the crypto mining trend largely fell off, but the graphics cards are still crazy expensive.

Now corporations are converting farmland into large-scale AI server farms, thus raising the prices for electricity and RAM,  so they can get rid of human workers and create lots of slop of videos for social media.

Greed is good.

Whenever I see an AI slop video, it feels gross that this is pushing up electricity bills.

This is the only place I post on the Internet.