mhoyeTo spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
Tyrone Slothrop@mhoye wait... that's just a supersized pump-and-dump scheme
iwein@slothrop yes, and it's so obvious, once the moving parts are visible, that I'm sure the people that made a career in this, and designed the scheme, know exactly what they do.
Maybe someone(s) is timing their short on oil very precisely. AI is the trigger, the stock market is the gun, fossil is the bullet. And the rest is smoke and mirrors.
When the trigger is pulled, our enemies will be short on fossil and long on weapons at just the right time. Or I'm a conspiracy theorist.