(I know it's not the point, but a reminder that data center climate impact, including heat, is nowhere near flight, agricultural waste, or construction. Hate it for its own reasons, not for fake ones.)
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It's easier to bitch about the woes of a thing I already don't like than to have to make any effort in changing my habits, mmkay?
Yeah, the main problems right now, seem to be electricity consumption, causing price hikes in surrounding areas.
Which feels to me like terrible policies still. Make big projects pay their costs please!
It's a bit different in this case.
The responsibility of providing electricity falls onto the nearby power plant, which then also has to increase their production.
But the maker of the new electricity consumer does not need to pay for the capital or anything else really, apart from the electrical rates (and some minimal fixed rates) that they are using.
Some governments are coming up with interesting, seemingly effective regulations, though.
What type of regulations are we talking, or at least which country's?
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Another user in the BlueSky thread showed a photo that appears to be a Best Buy case of RAM, showing a 32GB set of two DDR5 DIMMs going for over $400 USD, a 64GB kit for over $900.
If I hit Google Shopping, which indexes a ton of retailer sites, I can find 2x16GB DDR5 DIMMs for far less than that at various retailers that haven't jacked up prices yet.
https://www.google.com/shopping?udm=28
My first hit for "2x16gb 32gb ddr5" sorted by price is this:
https://pcpartshawaii.com/products/kingston-fury-ddr5-32gb-2x16gb-5200mhz-cl40-ram
Kingston Fury DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 5600MHz CL40 RAM KF556C40BBK2-32
$100.00
They say that they have two in stock.
These guys are next lowest:
https://www.barcodediscount.com/catalog/kingston/part-kcp548us8k2-32.htm
Price: $103.06
Who goes to best buy for ram? Like the physical store... Everything small is marked up anyways.
And what's not marked up is sold out. Fuck that place.
So? Don't fucking buy it! Has that never occurred to some y'all? If the rest of the world had my purchasing habits we'd already be looking at Depression 2.0.
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There should be laws capping how much of something you can sell to a single greedy person/purpose. It's common fucking sense.
Sure. Not for RAM, though. It ain't water, friend.