Dinge, die durch KI teurer werden: Hetzner erhöht ab April die Preise für vServer um über 30 Prozent. Weil RAM und Festplatten teurer sind, so die Begründung.

#aitax #kisteuer #kinflation #ainflation #ai #ki #hetzner #vserver

RE: https://oldfriends.live/@paul/115743334738126963

Another feck'n month where our electric usage was lower than last year for the same month because we did energy improvements but the electric bill was twice as much, just because all the data center energy brokers are bidding up the electric grid energy auctions, and can, because right now they have unlimited pockets. This nonsense has to stop. I'm calling it the #AItax.

#USPol #DataCenters #economy .

ℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋 (@[email protected])

The 3 PCs I just brought in for my employer were $1079 a week ago, and are now $1320. The memory prices are already making their way to pre-builts. The SSDs, memory modules AND HDDs in my purchase history have all gone up substantially, if not out of stock completely. The crowd funded public data server with 8x refurb data center HDDs was around $1200. Now it would be $1600. This is bad. 2026 will be special. #dram #memory #AI #data centers #nand #ssd

LGBTQIA+ and Tech
I like how @mrkaran.bsky.social puts it: #AI is turning domain experts into creators. Home-cooked software is real - you can build ideal tools in hours, not months - and the hidden "AI tax" (prompting, debugging, hallucinations) is very real. #AITax #NoCode #ResponsibleAI

AI and Home-Cooked Software
AI and Home-Cooked Software

AI is enabling a new category of personal software. Welcome to the era of home-cooked applications.

Karan Sharma

A French collecting society wants a tax on generative AI, payable to…collecting societies

Back in October last year, Walled Culture wrote about a proposed law in France that would see a tax imposed on AI companies, with the proceeds being paid to a collecting society. Now that the EU’s AI Act has been adopted, it is being invoked as another reason why just such a system should be set up. The French collecting society SPEDIDAM (which translates as […]

#aiAct #aiTax #collectingSocieties #eu #france #spedidam

https://walledculture.org/a-french-collecting-society-wants-a-tax-on-generative-ai-payable-tocollecting-societies/