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AI Is Quietly Making Everything More Expensive

While everyone's cheering on AI's superpowers, there's a much less glamorous party happening inside chip factories: hardware prices are going haywire, and that bill is landing squarely on the price tag of your phones, computers, and cars. The frenzied buildout of data centers to train AI models is hoovering up memory like a black hole, with RAM prices jumping 200% — and guess who's footing the bill? Spoiler: it's you.