Cyber
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Anyone know what happened to wrong planet?
Wrong Planet - Wikipedia
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the fact that their greedy data center quintupled their rates without so much as a warning.
AI is sucking up all the computing resources. RAM prices tripled overnight a few months ago (now 5x higher) and storage prices and now 3x higher after companies like OpenAI (ChatGPT) bought everything they could. They went to companies with the highest market share and bought their entire production for the rest of this year and some of the next 2 years. I'm guessing they're paying whatever it takes to buy existing datacenters now to expand capacity, leaving limited access and much higher prices for everyone else due to the limited capacity remaining. Let's hope half the web doesn't go down.Obviously I can't pull anything up but I did a google search and got this. This was apparently a post presumably by maybe Alex - can't see anything further than what I've pasted here.
Wrong Planet May Go Down
Feb 23, 2026 — Our hosting provider is going out of business because their datacenter is raising rates 5X on them. This seems to be happening industry wide...