I'm being convinced that the data centers are the cause of the hardware cost and supply problem. Electricity costs, too, and an article about that gave me more insight into the big picture.
"An average household has 21 Wi-Fi-connected devices, according to the Data Center Coalition."
Wow, I think, unbelievable! It's in the interest of this coalition to inflate that number, but with my own household count, and surely others, of zero wifi devices, some households must have more than 21 connected devices. Wow.
"Those devices are backed by cloud services, one of the primary functions of a data center, and “the backbone of the internet and modern economy,” Diorio said. When the grid is strained, “data centers can’t just turn the internet off,” he added."
Translation: If you restrict the data centers, you will crash the economy. And by the way, it's more important to keep the data centers running than to keep the power on for everybody else.
I'm thinking what's happening here needs to go on the "bringing down the country list" along with corrupt politicians, illegals, pedophiles, etc. See also the video about renting computers here
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How Washington state lawmakers are trying to regulate data centers
