AI data center spending collides with a RAM price backlash
Google acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming (50397711), and a comment points to Google's announcement of a $17 billion investment in the Wyoming project the day before. One skeptic predicts companies will back out and calls it 'infinite money glitch news for accounting', citing a similar story from Nscale, and adds that no company needs more data centers. Another asked if this is related to Meta.
The consumer side shows up in 'Upload Your RAM' (50403214), a joke site mocking Sam Altman's remark that consumers holding RAM is an inefficient use. Commenters called it silly but said the real villains are memory manufacturers with a history of collusion.
The through-line: compute buildouts are raising hardware costs for everyone else, and the public blames AI companies and memory makers together.
So what?
Hardware inflation lands on your own dev machines, your self-hosted inference plans and your customers' laptops. Budget for RAM and GPU prices staying high, and don't assume the buildout is a sure thing: skeptics expect some of these projects to be cancelled.