Better Offline

Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive

July 10, 2026·8 min·4-min readsolotechnology
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The AI gold rush is inflating a speculative bubble fueled not by real demand, but by hyperscalers recklessly pre-ordering GPUs and building data centers that suck up absurd amounts of high bandwidth memory (HBM), driving global RAM prices skyward and making consumer electronics more expen

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Ed ZitronSam AltmanDario AmodeiSundar PichaiJensen HuangMark Zuckerberg

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NvidiaSK hynixMicronSamsungOpenAIAnthropic

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Artificial IntelligenceEconomicsInflationSemiconductorsStartupsSupply ChainTech IndustryVenture Capital

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