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Why are AI data centres so hungry?
AI data centres require vast amounts of high-speed memory to process the enormous datasets needed to train and run artificial intelligence models. Their insatiable demand is soaking up global production, leaving less available for other uses and driving prices sky-high for everyone else.
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