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It’s a global phenomenon. The latency concerns for data centers are minimal, so they could be built anywhere.

If your country restricted a company from buying too much of a product they need, 10 other competitor companies in other countries would be formed the very next day offering to do the work in their country for a minimal fee.

This is a global market. Supply and demand isn’t going to be cancelled out by politicians in one country trying to squeeze the market.

If you did restrict companies from buying things they need, you would see all future companies in that space incorporated in other countries.

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Yeah, imagine doing that for oil. American and EU companies that “hoard” oil get punished. The net effect would be everyone else gets to buy more and prices remain exactly the same.

The old race to the bottom.

It’s the old supply and demand in a global market.

It’s weird to read all of the calls for regulation to fix this when the DRAM and chip production is happening in other countries.


On third of the Memory Stooges is in the United States...



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