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phononyesterday at 6:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

OpenAI (Stargate) kicked off the price increases a year ago by locking up 40% of the global supply of RAM output.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star...


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happyPersonRyesterday at 6:41 PM

And watch … $5 says they have nothing to do with the ram because even if there was enough power there’s no use case for this much spend

If I had to guess they’re just buying up ram to keep others from having it same way meta, Google, etc hired up engineers to keep others from having them

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andriy_kovalyesterday at 6:50 PM

next they will become successful business by reselling RAM