First, the AI bros came for our GPUs. Now, they come for the RAM.

If you haven’t checked memory prices lately, maybe sit down first. DDR5 prices are skyrocketing because manufacturers are too busy making high-end chips for Open AI’s data centres to care about our gaming rigs. We are literally competing for silicon scraps against a chatbot that can’t even count reliably how many Rs a word has.

But what if this isn’t just a shortage? What if it’s a strategy?

The AI bubble is wobbling. Companies have spent billions on compute, but reports show that 95% of these generative AI projects are failing to make real money. They are desperate to monetise their mediocre slop bots, and selling $20/month chat subscriptions isn’t cutting it.

So, how do they stay afloat? By forcing us to rent their computers, of course.

Microsoft already showed their hand with the Windows 365 Link, a cheap plastic puck with garbage specs designed solely to stream a cloud PC. We laughed at it then, but look at the board state now.

If they hoard all the hardware for their data centres, making local PCs prohibitively expensive in the process, we won’t have a choice. We’ll have to buy the cheap puck and pay the monthly subscription. The future isn’t Skynet nuking us; it’s paying a monthly rent to access a laggy cloud desktop because the AI giants succeeded in their hardware heist.

You will own nothing, and you will be happy.

I’m exagerating of course. I’m too paranoid. Right?