To put into perspective how much RAM is being consumed by AI datacenters

It is estimated that all future outlays for data center spending is basically 75% two companies. There is very little demand outside of these two.

Open AI and anthropic... Open AI financials are a disaster.. but maybe they are too big to fail.

Either they implode spectacularly or we bail them out with tax payer funds.

Guessing the latter happens and the memory issue continues marching forward

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The 128GB I bought for under $400 last year is now worth more than the rest of my rig, except my NAS. A 5 year old 6TB drive is going for over $200 used, on eBay.

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Synology?

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All of Hynix' (I think) 2027 production run is already sold. The 128GB I bought for under $400 last year is now worth more than the rest of my rig, except my NAS. A 5 year old 6TB drive is going for over $200 used, on eBay.

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fricking sucks. i'm trying to build 2 raid6 NAS units and you could get a 20TB drive for around $200 awhile back. now its closer to $500

multiple that x4 for my RAID6 install and its literally a non-starter. i'm going to have to start out with a shitty usb drive and fill up the NAS later when things sort themselves out. never seen anything like it.

eta MY BAD. closer to $1,000 for a freaking 20TB drive now AND STILL CLIMBING

Major hyperscalers and AI firms have aggressively bought up memory capacity years in advance, signing long-term multi-year contracts that are historically unprecedented for the semiconductor industry.

Everything I own has WAY too much RAM (32g) but it’s also all soldered except my old ddr4 laptop.

Maybe once Intel gets SYCL graphs to actually work on PyTorch, I’ll actually use more.

Seems like every single AI tool has the exact same options available:
1. Run CUDA
2. Be slow
3. Run GGUF, Onnx, RockM, or OpenVino with stripped out features.

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Bought a new laptop today.

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Well the new laptop arrived D.O.A. The Usb-c/Thunderbolt port on it was non-functional. Having to return it to amazon (which is going to be a pita....)

Before Netflix stopped shipping discs, they let me check out up to 20 at a time, and keep them during the last 2-3 months. It's not piracy if you rip what you were given!

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Why do you need that much space? Quit pirating shite

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I'm really going to blow your mind: im buying 4 20tb drives to fill a NAS and setting it to RAID7 which will give me 40tb of usable space double fault protected.

Also going to serve as my friend's off-site cloud backup and he's getting the same setup and I'll use his.

This should keep us happy for a couple of years.

Just lost 26tb worth of movies and music due to a hard drive crash during a power outage and I'm not going through that again.

16tb. Typo
. Still bad.

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Maybe you’ll see that $15/mo for multiple streams of all the live tv, movies, and shows basically in existence isn’t so bad

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if that was actually true I would quit messing with Plex tomorrow.