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[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It would be more correct to claim the demand is artificial, in that the hardware is probably going to sit in a warehouse, depreciating for years before the data centers and power infrastructure are brought on line to use it.

But, I get where you're going with it.

Speculative bubbles are gonna speculate.

Some may even suspect a deliberate motive to kill personal computing to force cloud adoption, but hey... What would they know.