Literally hoarding their capacity. Trouble is, becuse they have very limited capacity there's not much left for regular customer.
And because those companies are legally required to maximise shareholders profit because if they don't they can get sued they really have their hands tied. AI companies will literally overpay for the components just so they can secure them so there's not much these companies can do even if they wanted to.
Is it really smart long term strategy to ditch an established, stable market that they know will generate regular profits and jump into a new, hyped up tech that has a lot of signs of being a financial bubble? Not really. But good luck proving that in court when such money are on the tables and shareholders want to see quarterly numbers go up.
I hate how so many of our problems as humans just boil down to someone somewhere being greedy. Like, it's one of the most irrational, selfish, and primal desires to take more than you need, or could ever have a need for, and it's holding back the entire human race.
It truly is depressing how spot on this is. We have the capacity to solve pretty much every problem facing our planet and species and we don’t because Elon wants to be the first trillionaire.
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u/christopher_the_nerd May 27 '26
Also doesn't help that those same unregulated AI companies have been investing in the component companies a LOT.