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Ironically, the AI datacenter boom is also buying up all the storage.

Is that true? It feels wrong. Consumer grade SSDs and spinning disks are unlikely to be the products used in enterprise.

Look at SSD prices over the last 6 months. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/

AI companies bought up all the NAND manufacturing capacity, limiting the available manufacturing capacity for consumer products. These data centers also use hard drives for some of their data storage.

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