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Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"
(www.computerworld.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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In the mean time they're soaking up all the RAM, SSD and silicon processing which makes basically everything with any of those cost a lot more (like the RAM I bought for $99, 4 yrs ago thats now $560). Not to mention the power requirements and costs being passed on to the consumers that don't want it anyway.
They're also screwing up the environment in ways it won't recover from.
Which is pouring money into the manufacturers of those things. If you're convinced the AI companies are going to collapse then just wait a little and you'll get all those things way cheaper than they were before.
At the moment, most of that "money" is just stock in the other company. And the type of RAM and "GPU"'s being manufactured are not ones that normal consumers will use. They're very specialized for AI en masse.
Another thing around that is that the major manufacturers being leveraged for that gear have stated that they are not increasing production in the near future because of this. It seems they're mostly in a "wait and see, it might just be a bubble" mode as scale up takes a lot of time and only pays off with continued demand over a long period of time.
I'd love if it was going to be flooding the market with cheaper tech, but thats not been shown to be the case. And it's really not worth the environmental impact in either case.
They're using the same foundries that would make those things. I'm not saying that there'll be a flood of "used" equipment (though there would indeed be some of that too, other companies could set up data centers much more cheaply), I'm saying that the foundries will switch back to consumer products.
The stock is worth a lot because it can be sold for a lot. If the manufacturers don't think the AI companies will stick around they should be selling the stock they're receiving from them. It's money either way. What do you think they're doing with that money?