How about they shouldn’t be allowed to do that? You can build data centers without breaking the law. They also don’t use that much water. They have been farming almonds in arid California areas for decades and nobody cared

Like what? The economy is basically not in a recession because of a data center boom

That’s why I don’t think we should limit the AI boom, give the supply chains a chance to pay for more capacity for the future

We had this issue during the crypto boom and the manufacterers that added capacity then are glad they did.

What else could use up that RAM? How about standalone VR? We could get mainstream adoption by 2030.

The point is building factories sometimes pays off

Just remove the battery?

So your retirement fund should be looking healthy, that’s a good thing.

There are multiple chip and RAM manufacturers. They are all swamped with orders

They can, but they shouldn’t. The AI boom won’t last forever. The RAM, CPU, GPU manufacturers should get the maximum value now to increase manufacturing capacity. It will be needed later for other things.

For example, the crypto mining boom first caused shortages in the GPU market, but the following generation was a really good value. 3080s still sold out, but now it was to gamers. Without the crypto boom, the manufacturers wouldn’t have increased the capacity as much and fewer GPUs would been sold to gamers in the next generation

What? The stock market is doing great

S&P 500 up 9% YTD, 62% in the past 5 years

Like it or not, pricing is the most efficient way of distributing limited resources. Unless you want people in RAM lines

Streaming to steam deck is not a bad idea, actually. It gets more battery life and you can do AAA games at 60 FPS

I would just do it from the desktop, though

which means it can be had for just a bit more on aliexpress

In China it’s like $10 or so

There’s a 3.5mm detachable product that you can connect IEMs to.

They are drilling a wall that connects to me and it vibrates the whole place. It’s around 100dB and they are not allowed to do it past business hours. But I’m home at that time

You want wireless, but with a wire?

What? I bought one in China the other day, they keep releasing random IEMs all the time

I live in an apartment. When a neighbor does remodeling the drills can really be like a jet taking off. I have to use ANC and put construction earmuffs on

They said the stem design is for the mic

But you lose ANC that way