The AI boom is sending the costs of the electronics we use every day through the roof. Chipmakers are diverting limited resources from gaming consoles and laptops to meet the endless memory chip demands of hyperscale data centers—chasing AI industry profits at consumers’ expense. After OpenAI committed to buying 40% of all the chips in the world for their Stargate data center project, the cost of these RAM memory chips went soaring, leading to price increases on electronics across the board. Producer: trevorp_hayes Editor: Gina Barton Supervising Producer: Court Fuller

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