The RAM manufactures would normally consider increasing production in the face of increased demand, but they all know it’s a massive bubble so don’t want to, resulting in increased process until this all plays out.

The AI corps building the datacenters pretty much all have blank checks and want to be the biggest.

So the other corps that make chips, will always focus on what's most profitable, which is what the AI centers use.

For it to be "worth it" to produce any consumer level tech, they have to raise the price to justify not just making the AI chips

So it's not a conspiracy that's raising prices, it's capitalism working as intended, and to fix it would have to fix the focus on profits and replace it with fulfilling needs of the people. Which is pretty much the opposite of capitalism...

No. We're just so broken as a society that we allow rich assholes to destroy markets for regular people by betting on overhyped bullshit.

From people? No.

From AI. AI companies have seemingly infinite money (not really but investor sentiment is huge and investors are happy giving more and more money to AI). And banks are willing to lend money to AI. And there's new financial instruments (special purpose vehicle) allowing even more money to come out of investors.

This ends after AI runs out of money. But they are funded by the biggest tech bros with $Trillions in valuation.

Certain companies are buying up all the stock because it stops individuals from building their own AI capable rig and forces them and businesses into subscription models.

They are using copyright laws in the same way and lobbying so building new models legally costs millions of dollars and open sourcing stops being viable.

The biggest threat to the AI bubble is people running the same services out of their home with open source alternatives for a fraction of the price.

They™ stopped hoarding eggs, and now They™ are hoarding RAM instead.

What is happening to RAM now is what happened to the housing market a few decades ago. It is unlikely it will ever recover because Capitalism demands that whatever makes the most profit, no matter how harmful or unethical, is what must be done.

It's not "manufacturered", so it's not conspiracy. But it's from unreasonable and unacceptable high demand.