The cloud providers and the AI companies are the same companies, and what they have learned is that they can tie up all the high-end hardware for themselves and make it unaffordable for plebs

The hardware companies in turn will be happy to keep prices high even if raw materials are ever more easily available again and demand is (somewhat) lower

Isn’t it curious how Apple has brought out its cheapest laptop ever at a time when hardware is otherwise at its most expensive in a long time? It’s an underpowered client for cloud services

Welcome to the future of computing. The ‘thin client’ dream of the 90s is here!

And yes, what I am describing between cloud providers and hardware manufacturers is an illegal cartel

Does it look like the current US administration would do anything to stop them? Does it look like the current US administration is going anywhere in the next, oh, ten to fifty years?