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The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. (archive.is)
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[–] Tinks@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I work in procurement and the last week and a half at work has been hell. Buying anything that contains RAM, Hard drives or GPUs right now is a circus. Pricing changing after orders placed, 6+ month lead times, insanely expensive pricing and any other problem you can imagine. It's not just a problem for consumers, but businesses that need hardware refreshes, startups that are trying to launch, and replacements for defective units are all just really hard to get right now. I know this will pass eventually, but it's a tough time to be in procurement for IT hardware.

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I work for an OEM and the sales dudes have been getting reamed by our customers because they’ve had to deliver this news to folks like you. Sucks all around.

[–] itistime@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bet those sales douches are happy with the bonuses they will get.

I don’t like sales dudes.

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

We’re not really raising prices above costs, in fact we’re eating a lot of the cost increases ourselves to flatten the overall increase across the board that ends up with our customers. But a lot of them already made commitments to buy that we have to raise the price on through no fault of our own. And more are coming. So I don’t think the sales dudes are seeing any benefit tbh. Though you’re right to not like them.