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Lee Duna Feb 25

Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

https://lemmy.nz/post/34762940

Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up - Lemmy NZ

>According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.

“Why does the population hate us? We’re only completely destroying the consumer electronics market, accelerating climate change, aiming to eliminate countless jobs, increasing power costs, and stealing the works of millions of people to feed our system all so we can get even more obscenely wealthy? Please clap.”

You forgot to mention that the product they’re sacrificing everything for is widely failing to meet expectations and that they will likely expect taxpayers to bail them out when their investments fail and threaten to take out the entire economy with themselves

douglasg14b Feb 25

To be clear, it only wildly fails to meet expectations in sectors that you hear about.

It’s most definitely medium expectations in sectors you don’t hear about because news and social media have a huge negativity bias because that gets views and engagement.

Like what?

gibmiser Feb 25

Law enforcement and military

zelahdieliekeis Feb 25

I certainly expect that the visual models are meeting expectations in the racial profiling department.

www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/01/05/…/9641767634540/

Doesn’t seem to be meeting expectations in that sector either.

AI-generated police report states Utah officer was turned into a frog - UPI.com

A Utah police department's use of artificial intelligence led to a police report stating that an officer had been transformed into a frog.

UPI

VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt Feb 25

Oh yeah I just read how AI keeps suggesting nuking everyone. That sounds like a great success. (I get what you mean, I just wanted to be a wiseass)

cecilkorik Feb 25

I think it’s more like expectations have been deliberately lowered in those fields to meet exactly what AI can deliver. Unpredictable, arbitrary, non-negotiable decisions are the point, and the goal. It’s not about enforcing any laws or achieving any actual outcome other than making innocent people fear for their lives. And it’s doing a fine job at that.

douglasg14b Feb 25

Contact centers, software development, automation, images and video analysis, data analysis, semantic search, entity recognition…etc

Many of these are cross-cutting across many sectors.

MousePotatoDoesStuff Feb 26

Most of these aren’t generative AI, tho?

Random Dent Feb 25

Also in a few years when the AI generated nonsense code reaches a critical point and a ton of important systems grind to a halt, we’ll expect all of you that we fired to come back and un-fuck it for us so we can keep on making money. On temporary contracts and at reduced wages of course because times are tough.

But the crash is the moment where the people with actual tech knowledge will have leverage to say them: “pay me 10 times my standard rate or get bent”

Random Dent Feb 26

I hope so! But if the economy gets bad enough I can see people getting desperate enough that they’ll all scramble and under-cut each other into oblivion just to secure the work. Time will tell I guess.

On temporary contracts and at reduced wages of course because times are tough.

Software engineers predicted this would happen. The percentage of developers that love fixing other people’s code is essentially zero, fixing ai code is even smaller.

If they require low wages, they’ll only get the worst of the worst. Expect this phase to repeat until they are forced to hire for competence and pay above market rate required to convince senior developers to deal with not just the ai mess but all the failed attempts to turn it around.

ZILtoid1991 Feb 26

I have a feeling, that the tech sector has enough kompromat on a lot of important people to keep the bubble from bursting.