Taran RampersadMar 15

Helium. This I did not see coming.

Helium.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

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Drone strikes halt a third of the world's helium supply, threatening chip production

At the center of the issue is the precision gas vital to chip manufacturing and cryogenics. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication, maintaining the extremely low temperatures...

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Show threadNeko Mar 16
@knowprose This is going to make things much harder to manufacture all the RAM chips for the datacentres that don't exist with the money we don't have.
Show threadThe Penguin of Evil

@neko @knowprose that's fine all the investors are pulling out of fantasy league AI and data centre projects as they're going to need a lot of capital to put out the US private credit dumpster fire.

The helium risk was well documented years ago, ditto fertilizer and food into the middle east. There are alternatives but they take time. Perhaps it's time people stopped covering fields in plastic coated gunk to pillage the land to grow stuff China has stopped importing

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