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Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital (mashable.com)
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[โ€“] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They should stop selling hardware to "AI" datacenters entirely

[โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Why would they? It's by far their biggest market. This is capitalism working as designed: sell to the companies running datacenters, then you and they can make money by renting computing resources at a premium to the peasants, and by spying on those peasants as they use it.