{"id":404812,"date":"2025-11-26T00:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404812\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:59:17","slug":"the-surreal-madness-of-the-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404812\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TPM Reader EB emailed today to tell me something that hadn\u2019t come across my radar: the cost of computer memory is going absolutely through the roof. Just do a Google search for something like rising cost of computer memory and you\u2019ll see a ton of articles. To give you a sense of scale the cost increases are approaching 200% year over year and as much as 30% for certain kinds of gaming RAM recently in one week. The cause is what you\u2019d expect: the insatiable demand for memory created by the AI server farm buildout. I buy computer memory too but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve tried to buy recently enough to be aware of the surge.<\/p>\n<p>I told EB that I continue to find all of this surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TPM Reader EB emailed today to tell me something that hadn\u2019t come across my radar: the cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":404813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,191166,158,191167,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-404812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-editors-blog","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-the-backchannel","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115613294162262269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}