Reallocated
Supply that didn't run out — it just found a customer willing to pay more than you.
Saudi Arabia Banned Growing Alfalfa at Home in 2018 to Save Its Groundwater. It Grows the Alfalfa in Arizona Now, Where a State Lease Let It Pump as Much Water as It Wanted.
On 5 November 2018, Saudi Arabia banned the cultivation of green fodder within the kingdom. Growing alfalfa and similar forage crops in a desert had been consuming roughly seventeen billion cubic metres of water a year, of which about nine billion would be saved by no longer doing it. Domestic
Meta's Georgia Data Center Draws Roughly Ten Percent of the County's Daily Water Supply to Cool Servers. A Member of Congress Had to Bring Jars of the Neighbors' Brown Tap Water to a Hearing Before the EPA Agreed to Look.
Beverly and Jeff Morris live about 1,000 feet from Meta's data center campus straddling Newton and Morgan Counties, Georgia, a $750 million-to-$1 billion-plus build in the Stanton Springs industrial park. Their well water ran dry, then came back brown with sediment, and in the
A Blackwell AI Chip Sells for $40,000. An RTX 5090 Sells for $2,000, When You Can Find One.
A single AI datacenter chip from Nvidia sells for somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000. A gaming graphics card from the same company sells for $299 to $1,999 — when you can find one at all. Nvidia's own CEO has said the quiet part out loud, and
Crucial Existed for Nearly Three Decades. Micron Killed It the Moment AI Started Paying More.
Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix, Western Digital, and Seagate all discovered the same thing at the same time: AI data centers pay more for memory and storage than you do. So now they sell to AI data centers.