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11 minute read Published: 2026-02-20Nobody can buy RAM right now. SSDs are in a similar situation. Now, even spinning disks are hard to come by. Of course, GPU prices have been skyrocketing for some time. While geopolitics and supply chain issues compound the issue, the largest driver of demand is clear: the AI industry spinning up more and more compute to serve their oracles.
Our inability to buy computing power, while not necessarily the AI companies' direct objective, is absolutely a happy outcome for their bosom buddies, cloud service providers.