Email from VPS provider: "...the global memory shortage has been driving up hardware costs across the entire hosting industry. RAM and SSDs are more expensive than ever, as AI corporations are consuming a large portion of production capacity... we must pass on parts of these increased costs."
That's bad enough, but they've paid for literally the world's supply of memory and disk with money that does not actually exist, while we have to pay for what we already have with money that does exist.
Stevan
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