ASUS has stopped producing the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB. They basically have them the "end of life" call and no other ones will be made. Because of the costs of RAM, they are reverting back to focusing on 8GB graphics cards. I have a feeling they won't be the only ones that do this. I would imagine as the prices stay inflated due to AI taking over, other brands will discontinue their more demanding cards. These are not old cards either, they are fairly new and in demand but because of memory shortages, they can't do much about it.
I think this is also why silver is at an all-time high in terms of value. AI systems and tech companies. I am not sure where this is heading but I did see something about an agreement for big tech companies to pay more in electricity. This is because the massive data centers that are popping up all over. They consume too much. I feel like this will eventually lead to rolling black-outs of power of people aren't smart about this, especially in the summer.
Did you see that both silver AND gold hit all time highs? Pretty nuts! I didn't think I would ever see silver over $100 USD. I wish I had invested. My brother actually did like 4 years ago so he is fairly happy right now. I think you are right though, all these metal materials are going up in value because of computing and AI. It is kind of making a mess of the market though. And yeah, I think people really need to consider power-outages when making these structures. They shouldn't be anywhere need homes and should be on their own power grids.
They have since tanked so I am not sure what to make of it. I think silver hit something like $125 an ounce and gold was over $5,000 but both have since declined. I haven't checked them in a few days to see if they bounced back. Crypto is also taking a massive hit too.