--- title: Premium: The Hater's Guide To The Memory Crisis | daily.dev description: AI data center buildout is driving a global memory crisis. NVIDIA's dominance as the largest purchaser of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) — consuming ~65% of all... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-the-memory-crisis-mtzcmr62j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Premium: The Hater's Guide To The Memory Crisis | daily.dev og:description: AI data center buildout is driving a global memory crisis. NVIDIA's dominance as the largest purchaser of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) — consuming ~65% of all... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-the-memory-crisis-mtzcmr62j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mTzcMR62j.png og:image:alt: Premium: The Hater's Guide To The Memory Crisis og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Premium: The Hater's Guide To The Memory Crisis **[Where's Your Ed At](https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI data center buildout is driving a global memory crisis. NVIDIA's dominance as the largest purchaser of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) — consuming ~65% of all HBM — combined with a triopoly of memory manufacturers (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron) controlling 90%+ of RAM production, has caused record price hikes across all consumer electronics. MacBooks, iPhones, gaming consoles, and Android phones are all getting more expensive. Memory manufacturers are posting record profits while hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta) are spending $765B+ in capex funded by debt, not actual consumer demand. The piece argues this creates a dangerous speculative bubble: if hyperscaler capex contracts, HBM demand collapses, leaving memory manufacturers with stranded capacity and a supply glut. The longer the cycle continues, the worse the eventual crash — and every consumer electronic gets more expensive in the meantime. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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