They should stop selling hardware to "AI" datacenters entirely
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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They could garner good will by setting aside a % of their stock to sell to red-blooded people at a lower price..
If someone walks into a grocery store before a storm and wants to buy 10 pallets of water, the store tells them to fuck off.
That's 1 day. Guaranteed if someone walked in and said "I want to buy all the water you can sell for the next 9 months", they'd be singing a very different tune.
Am I going to have to stop using my old hard drives to hold open doors?
And all that so big tech can spy on you better.
When Trump threatened tariffs I went ahead and bought 50 TB of storage. With my then expansion it would easily last me until the end of Trump's turn and maybe a decade if I rationed.
Turns out that was one of my best calls of judgements to date, just not for the reason I thought.
I bought 10kg of Playadito Yerba Mate at the beginning of 2025, should also have thought about storage, now I have to start cleaning up.
Yeah... but the slop!
Wait til all these projects crash, burn, and get liquidated. Gonna be an amazing secondary market for brand new, unused bulk hardware.
Yes, of course
Except, i doubt anyone will be doing much with a 32 code Xenon CPU Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs
And the cuda only fanless and outputless GPU will also be kinda useless, especially because they all need a special setup to force feed air through the entire rack to not overheat
Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs
I'm not using Windows servers at home but if I did then a license wouldn't be a factor when deciding what hardware to buy.
a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs
Year of the Linux Desktop! Any day now... any day... huffs copium
I mean it’s 64/128/256 cores for home/pro/workstation so not really. People buying aftermarket server parts that want windows can probably figure out how to type irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex if they don’t want to pay for it anyways lol.
But you won't be able to afford it because the market crash means you lose your job.
I think people don't realise that if AI fails, it's pretty much guaranteed to collapse the US economy.
It's not if but when. Hopefully sooner rather than later. And you're a fool if you think the implications won't be felt around the world. Just like they were when Americans rammed the housing market into the ground. We live in a global economy.
That would be awesome thank you
Don't you worry it's gonna have a global impact againjudt like it did in 08. Imagine losing your job in Italy for instance cause some bankers got ultra rich in the US. What a dumb fucking world.
I don't think 2008 really had a significant effect in Australia. I don't remember hearing much about it.
I didn't feel anything of it in Europe.
I know plenty people who are currently homeless in Europe originally lost their job following the 2008 crash.
Yep, either way, your job is toast.
AI succeeds: AI takes your job.
AI fails: Economy crashes and you lose your job due to the crash.
Do it, do it, do it, do it!
Don't threaten us with a good time.
Meh, not really a full collapse. Just like 75% of it and a huuuuge recession. Or maybe a "Tiny Depression"? Basically, 10 years to recover. Which is where we're going anyway, with out without AI.
And if AI doesn’t fail, people will be unemployed.
God, I hope so..
Free market totally regulating itself like we’ve always been told.
How can you doubt the Invisible Hand? Have you not seen how much it jerks?
🎈📌 when
The end model will be the 70s Arthur Clarke prediction. Just a dumb terminal with no processing capabilities at home, hooked to a mainframe (privately owned of course) which you'll have to use your all your daily needs.
These days with video compression and the like, even a terminal needs a minimum of processing power, enough to run basic things and a browser, especially if you want to make it lag free.
If everyone lags, there's no lag.
The HC530s drives I bought in Nov are 40% more expensive now. My local computer store used to sell 16TB Barracudas for CAD $250 last year. They're $400 now and only available in-store.
Burn it all down.
We don't need no water let the mother fucker burn.
Burn motherfucker burn.
What about SSDs?
Ask yourself why the AI industry turned to HDDs
Same as everyone else? Because it's a more cost-effective way of storing data?
No. AI workloads benefit from SSD's high random read/write performance. Also, I guess, more people starting using SSDs for paging/swap, as RAM prices skyrocketed.
This resulted in an SSD shortage immediately after RAM starting getting expensive. Which in turn caused an HDD shortage, because people need space to store their data.
You're gonna need to sit down for me to tell you about NAND prices
Those prices have already been driven up. For 4 TB NVMe:
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/
Yes but are they sold out for the entirety of 2026?
No, but they are prohibitively expensive. Just like hdds will be.
Damn it, I now see that my local IT store have had to postpone delivery of Seagate drives as well, I have four 8TB Seagate NAS drives in my new NAS I am building, I just need two more to complete the build.
So looks like I am going Toshiba for the last two drives + one cold spare.
It's good to get a variety of manufacturers + manufacture dates in your build anyways, to avoid the risk of getting bad manufacturer batches or issues with particular models that haven't been discovered yet. As long as the specs are all similar across the board of course
That is a good way to think about it!