Hard drives & RAM are costly & scarce due to data centers (surveillance design)

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RICK BEATO
https://youtu.be/aXy8mQeuObk

VIDEO EXCERPTS: Now, I typically use solid-state hard drives that are 4 to 8 terabytes, and the kind I use are Samsung. When I bought these, let's say a year ago, they costed, I don't know, $250 for a 4TB and maybe $430 for an 8TB.

So, I haven't bought any in a while. And I was like, I'm going to buy some stuff [...] So, I go into this place. ... I look in the cabinet, I see $2,000.

And I said to the guy, "$2,000? What's that for?"

He goes, "That's for the 4TB hard drive."

I'm like, "$2,000? That's insane." And I see the 8TB one. $4,000 for an 8TB. $4,000. They had a couple of them in there. I said, "What's up?"

He said, "Oh, yeah. Uh, they've gone up 1000% since last October."

1000%? And you have almost none in there.

Yeah, because we can't even get them anymore. .. Because they're using them in the data centers. They've already been bought up. They're buying them before they even get manufactured.

So, they can't even get any. The same thing is happening with RAM. Go try and buy RAM at places. It's incredibly expensive if they even have it. So, if you're trying to build a computer, it's almost impossible to do that. SD cards for cameras have tripled in price, too.

[...] And the manufacturers, the people that build these computers, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft, all these companies are building computers that can run local LLMs because 90% of what most people need to do, they can just run on their computer on a local LLM. You don't need a data center to do that.

Now, another thing is going on at the same time. Kids, not only my kids, all my kids' friends and college students ... so many people I've talked to, they hate AI. They don't just hate AI slop, AI videos, things like that. They hate the concept of AI. They hate AI music. Anytime they see anything related to AI, they want to run from it as quickly as possible.

I'm not saying that people are not using AI or kids not are not using AI, but there's a real anti-AI movement out there, as you can see from these clips of people...

[...] So, if kids don't want to use AI and you can run AI locally on your computer, not connected to the internet, what are these data centers for? Obviously, you need to train these AI programs, but do you need data centers that are the size of 60 football fields for that?

[...] there cameras are basically taking your license plate. They can do all this surveillance stuff. ... You go to the airport, you have your picture taken getting on the plane, you have it taken getting off the plane, you go to another country, they take your pictures. All of it is facial recognition. All this stuff is being stored. I guess it's being stored at these data centers. I don't know why they need it. I need hard drives to store my videos on so I can make stuff for YouTube here...

I was right about AI ... https://youtu.be/aXy8mQeuObk

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/aXy8mQeuObk

[stryder]

I think it's a little bit more than just Datacentres and AI hype.

I think it' more likely entire price rigging via those that have been slowly turning profit in one market and then moving to another. Overall if you were to look at all the raw resources and stages in chip manufacturing, you'd likely find that each individual market has been slowly bumped up in price over years. (for instance the gold market has had rebuyers and price manipulation for a decade or so)

This means it's a very large price rigging system either done by a few people with a lot of money (Such as certain rogue countries), or a lot of people conspiracy to corner the end product market along with its entire production chain to maximise profits. (e.g. AMD, Game Stop)

That being said, there will be a correction in the near future should a new chipset come to the market that doesn't use the current supply line for manufacturing, such as using a cheaper more affordable material that is readily available, such as Graphene.