Anything it takes to set up a data center. I bet network cable is next.

Yep, literally the whole habitable layer of our planet.

They‘re going full tech feudalism. There will be a shortage of everything. Especially of electricity and clean water.

https://youtu.be/Z0GFRcFm-aY

Why would you think there is anything wrong with them? They now get to scalp people with outrageous prices for the 20% they are selling. If the AI sloppanies pay, they made big sales. If the slop producers producers are unable to pay, they will sell the reserved stuff for normal or even slightly elevated prices. It's win-win. Basically an excuse for industry wide price-fixing.

The point of capitalism isn't "make a widget/sell the widget/to a customer" anymore, it's "create market value/sell the value/shareholders are the entire point." The widgets are just a prop in a way, the customers an abstraction. If it's making money, if it's growing above 3.5, we worship it. If it's growing at thousands of percent, then it's a god who cannot be stopped. Everything else just supports this - government, social programs, people's life and death and joy in between - that's all an abstraction. Shareholder value is the only thing that matters.

This is why we must restrain capitalism with regulation, but it's too late, it's metastasized into its final form now.

They learned nothing from the NFT/"Metaverse" hype cycle, but a century of hindsight might help. There's always going to be that golden goose that can make you insanely rich based on vague bullshit a lot of people don't fully understand.

Hopefully soon - I'd love more homelab upgrades

I for one are going to go shopping for used parts.

nope!

Do we kick ourselves for dotcom bubble?

It will burst the same way the dotcom bubble bursted.

Just like the internet, AI will be here to stay.

Another 2008 crisis and not being able to find a job or afford simple necessities, no thanks.

I mean it depends on what you're used for a UPS is. The smaller ones can still be had on Amazon for under $100 and if you hurry you could still get that pricing. But by the sounds that those ones are going to be jumping way up in price for no reason because literally those are useless to anybody in the Enterprise level. Unless they're being used at a desktop level which they do tend to purchase pallets worth of but this is more along the lines of Enterprise server level UPS's.

Chech out what Bluetti offers. They're LFP portable batteries but with a UPS features. You'll want the elite versions though, all the others are noisy with the fan, which the elite series fixed. The tech is pretty new with these showing up in the home portable battery market, but they will last longer in both battery longevity and power during outage than the old SLA type ones. And if youre travelling / going somewhere and dont need the UPS active you can take it with you and be useful!

i used to go in there and fart

I doubt that there's actually a substantial impact on battery cell production. Might be on rack-mountable batteries containing those cells. But setting that aside:

Panasonic plans to expand lithium-ion cell

Non-rechargable AAA batteries are typically alkaline, and rechargeables are typically NiMH, not lithium-ion.

EDIT: Looking at a handful of rack-mount lithium-ion batteries on Amazon price history using camelcamelcamel, prices are either unchanged or very slightly up. Could be Panasonic looking to get into the news, but it's not clear to me that there's a shortage of even rack-mount lithium-ion batteries.

Get yourself some rechargeables. Yeah they don’t last as long per charge. But I’ve got a stockpile and I keep rotating them out so I’ve always got a fresh pair ready to go.

Hit up Costco while you still can

don't most enterprise ups use lead acid?