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The RAM Crisis Keeps Getting Worse

2026-03-01 Science & Technology
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Visit https://brilliant.org/coldfusion for 20% off a premium subscription. In this episode we cover the insane supply shortage of RAM due to the AI buildout. It'll be the price and availability of a lot of consumer electronics over the next year. Watch or listen to ColdFusion on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1YEwCKoRz8fEDqheXB6UJ1 ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Created by: Dagogo Altraide Producers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide

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@gustavludwig9719 2026-03-01

quote “The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.” end quote

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@ristopaasivirta9770 2026-03-02

❌ "You only need 8GB of RAM for your laptop." ✅ "You can only afford 8GB of RAM for your laptop."

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@Mini33RPJ 2026-03-01

I've begun feeding my PC fish oil to improve its memory.

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@ntalam 2026-03-04

As an I.T. guy, I am seeing a few patterns: people are losing jobs, the computers are getting expensive, the manual labor is gonna be done by robots, food is getting expensive, real state is hell at the moment, and of course rich fuckers are TRILLIONAIRES now, not billionaires. Do they really want to destroy us all ?

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@kaleiohu 2026-03-01

Corporate FOMO is amazingly destructive.

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@klym8 2026-03-01

Stares nervously at my 8 year old Pc…. “Don’t die my son”

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@TotalRookie_LV 2026-03-01

A gold rush with no gold to get.

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@XM177ColtCommando 2026-03-02

That damn bubble couldn't pop sooner.

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@nemanjaradisavljevic9983 2026-03-01

This doesn't feel as much like a bubble, it feels more like a bomb...

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@KDee_Instromusic 2026-03-01

Can we get the RAMs back when OpenAI goes bankrupt? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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