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Comment by kristopolous

It's cartel price fixing.

Other datacenter prices aren't up 500%. CPUs, tape storage, mainboards, racks, cases, PSU, infiniband hardware, HVACs, all price stable.

But consumer grade RAM? Up 500%. USB disks? They're hundreds of dollars.

Also low density platter is up 2-300% as well. Don't tell me people are building out datacenters with 16tb spinning disks, I don't believe you.

It's companies that have price fixed doing it again.

Their EPS are up like 60x. Their stock is up like 10x and we're supposedly like "well I guess this thing you could sell for profit at $20 is now $960, cool"

And what's micron doing with it? $35 billion stock buy back. Alright. Asshole prices it is.

Prices of cheap 10 year old tech continues going up at crypto asshole speeds. Everyone should be insanely angry.

These prices aren't going to stop until either a non cartel player enters the market or there's a DOJ that's not just a bunch of kalshi and crypto scam bros.

We'll see what happens when everyone hears "black Friday? Nah, bro, prices are up another 20%, lol"

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