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
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.
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
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/