How AI Data Centers Are Making Everything More Expensive
2.4M views · Aug 29, 2026 · Science & Technology
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@BusinessInsider · 1 month ago (edited) · pinned
Read "I used Claude to solve a problem that data centers helped cause for my photography business. It's saved me thousands": <a href="https://bit.ly/3UtXAyA">https://bit.ly/3UtXAyA</a><br>"We opened a taco shop because Meta is building an AI data center nearby. Now 40% of our business is tied to it": <a href="https://bit.ly/3UZurvj">https://bit.ly/3UZurvj</a> <br>And "The AI boom is gobbling power faster than ever": <a href="https://bit.ly/4qKoIWc">https://bit.ly/4qKoIWc</a>
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@lanceluna9781 · 1 month ago
Back to books and outdoor activities.
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@Meatyshells · 1 month ago
2 Sticks of 16 GGB DDR5 ram cost me $120 in May of 2025, same ram cost $599 now.
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@itsa11good23 · 1 month ago
The amount of AI ad YouTube served me while trying to watch this video
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@RvlLeader · 1 month ago (edited)
broo the ram and ssd are already in high prices and now they're pumping motherboard too, whats next? power supply? Maybe the casing?😭
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@weeziepuff13 · 1 month ago
Things go up in price and they never go back down.
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@ZhaoPao · 1 month ago
I had finally saved up close to $3,500 for a 5090 PC after years of small upgrades then it shot up to around $6k. Crazy stuff.
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@shaqny1 · 1 month ago
I don’t think people understand how important this video it
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@aarong.5979 · 1 month ago
The funny thing is that the Buy Now Pay Later people won big if they bought the right stuff.
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@drchungj · 1 month ago
We need to build more AI data centers so that AI can tell us how to solve this problem of AI data centers driving inflation.
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@corngreaterthanwheat · 1 month ago
“Why do they hate us? We’re just jacking up electronics and electricity prices until they’re completely unaffordable for a technology that will either kill us all or take their jobs.”
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@scorchio89 · 1 month ago
"How AI Data Centers Are Making Everything More Expensive without actually improving anything"<br><br>There, I fixed the title.
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