That's about the size of things, yes.

In 2030 you will own nothing.

And you will be happy.

As workers, we are majorly screwed no matter what happens. Either AI/Robotics takes off, and creates a permanent 50% unemployment class, which MAGA will solve by exchanging basic subsistence needs like shelter and water in work camps, where we will be leased out to corporations as slaves, under the 13th Amendment. Also a good place for any dissenters, journalists, attorneys and judges who won't go along, etc.

Or maybe the bubble will pop, and we'll have a repeat of 2008, except 100 times worse.

No matter what happens, the citizens are going to take it in shorts.

I am sure you will be able to subscribe to use a share along with hundreds of other people for 1 computer at $19.99 a month going forward.

They'd only go bankrupt if they were spending the capital to increase capacity and were left holding the bag. And nobody's interested in doing that.

Issue is that the production is for server gear not consumer. So it’s U2 and other connectors rather than SATA.

Same goes for RAM it’s ECC and won’t work in normal consumer PCs (AMD has like unofficial support)

We might dine well on used datacenter hard drives in the coming years.

OnlyPhones is the future they want. Walled gardens and highly addictive apps and subscriptions and micro transactions. Freedom and real compute power will be locked away in their servers. And the top of the line phones are already expensive enough that pretty much everyone that has one is on a payment plan for it

That argument always befuddled me. There will be a saturation point of AI data centers when there's enough equipment already installed and ready to use by these over bloated behemoth corporations. Once that's over or when the market hopefully pops, the demand for memory should have a steep decline. With their cash cow tapped out, WD and all the other memory manufacturers would then have to go back to consumers they previously fucked over to sell their new production stock. I doubt it'll be at the prices we saw a year ago but once enough memory hits the consumer market for a while, prices should start to dip back down.

Oh my god we're having a FIRE ^sale^

I'm pretty sure the massive buildout is for training new models not for compute power for end users. Their justification is they need more compute to get the superhuman level intelligence AIs that they have been claiming. So if that pans out their probably gonna be fine, but seems unlikely that'll pan out how they want it to

Its the "service economy." Instead of making things, industry (in the US at least) is heavily skewed towards providing services (aka things you subscribe to or need to buy each time you use).

It does not benefit the individual.

They BADLY want to be able to monitor our every communication, because an authoritarian government that sees North Korea as a prime example, needs to be able to clamp down hard on any notion of dissent.

And we will have huge work camps all over America to send seditious traitors to, to be leased out as slaves to corporations, under the 13th Amendment. You love your precious Constitution, don't you? You expect MAGA to abide by every word, don't you? Well then you better love the 13th Amendment, too.

It's awful.

I bought a second laptop for general use, because I wanted a Linux laptop and a gaming-dedicated laptop running Windows. (Seeing as how digital surveillance made privacy more important.)

I got a very nice, used Acer for about $600 that runs everything I need AND functions well with a dual-boot, so I was thinking of selling my gaming laptop. Now? I'm holding onto it so I don't have to get price gouged if my main computer fails.

Wild world we live in.

Businesses want AI because it solves what they perceive as a problem: how to obtain labour without having to pay said labour.

Remember: AI is meant for wealth to access labour without cost, not for labour to access wealth. It’s a golden gate meant to permanently separate the wealthy from what used to be the working class.

Won't bother me, I despise onions. Cry, onion lovers, cry.

They do make hardware in most of those categories, actually, but they don't sell much of it direct to consumer in the West. And unfortunately, the way things are going, they're going to be able to get better prices for it from the AI-entranced idiots too.

I had an ExcelStor hard drive in the past and it was the most reliable drive I've ever had. I normally replace them when they die but that one never did, I just ended up retiring it when its capacity was no longer worth the electric cost to keep it running.

They‘ll just make it with secret phone-home spying and backdoors.

E: what‘s this? All these folks either saying the US does it or skipping past all the phone-home spyware China includes in devices? Guess that means cheaper spying hardware is ok then?

It may be a little tinfoil hat like, but you cannot convince me that these companies are shoving AI in literally everything, buying all the hardware in existence, and building data centets on land that no one wants them at, just to "make a better ai for the consumer." I believe this is an attempt at hardcore tracking and surveillence.

Unfortunately the most refined usage, and money dumped sector of Ai by far is image recognition

Its where all the money from Amazon and others has been dumped (Flock Surveillance, Amazon Ring, FedEx Trucks, Wal~Mart and your choice of store)

Surveillance, ALPR, Facial recognition, gait recognition, etc. It takes a massive amount of data

Go see how much space you need if you want to secure data from 10,000 cameras at 480p/720p/1080p for a few weeks, let alone a year or two

They want to log ALL user data in the world. Every convo you ever had with the ai, in text or audio, images video, etc.

Caching. I'm guessing they download the internet to large storage arrays and then run neural network learning on them. Its probable they download all videos too and transcribe them later. So its not so much used for hosting content, but for teaching models.

The boobs really sell it.

Haha this is hilarious

Those are some big ear muffs

XD

I uh...was not quite expecting that.

While simultaneously acting like a bunch of whiny little crybabies about falling birth rates.

Find some random used office PC and strap the drives inside. Install treunas and let it ride.

How many consumers have brand loyalty for harddrives? To me, they're effectively a commodity. I'll go with the one that has the best benchmark results for the size and price