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Price rises due to AI Boom
AI Boom Sends Hardware Prices Through the Roof — Here’s What We’re Seeing
If you’ve been shopping for new memory, SSDs, or a GPU lately, you’ve probably noticed the same thing we have: prices are climbing fast. And no, it’s not your imagination — the massive boom in AI system building is eating up hardware stock at an unbelievable pace.
Why Everything Costs More
AI training rigs and data-centre clusters are soaking up huge amounts of DRAM, NVMe storage, and high-end GPUs. The tech industry hasn’t seen demand like this since the crypto mining days, and manufacturers just can’t keep up.
Memory: DDR5 modules are going up in price as suppliers shift production toward high-bandwidth server memory for AI workloads. Less supply for the rest of us = higher prices.
SSDs: Big AI training pipelines need mountains of fast storage. Enterprise NVMe drives are getting grabbed first, and the consumer SSD market is feeling the squeeze.
GPUs: This one hurts the most. High-end AI accelerators are sold out for months, and even gaming GPUs are being bought up by small labs, devs, and hobbyists.
What This Means for Builders
From our side as a media-server builder, we’re seeing longer lead times, less availability, and more expensive component lists — especially for customers wanting GPU-accelerated transcoding or large memory/SSD configurations.
We’re doing everything we can to keep systems affordable, but until manufacturers expand production, expect prices to continue to rise and stay high.
The short version? The AI gold rush is real, and it’s reshaping the hardware market for everyone