Personal computers did not suddenly become expensive.
They were pushed back in line.
As artificial intelligence scaled upward, computation concentrated into massive datacenters built to compress time by overwhelming problems with hardware. That decision reshaped fabrication priorities, memory allocation, storage production, and supply chains across the entire industry.
This video follows the engineering path that led here, explains why consumer hardware is absorbing the cost, and asks the question no one wants to answer: if AI lives in the datacenter, who is actually supposed to use it?
Contents
00:00 - Beginning
00:52 - Part 1 Recap
02:30 - California Gold Rush
03:13 - AI Fever
03:47 - Fever turns to Rush
04:15 - PC Costs Drivers
04:48 - PC Cost Drivers
05:17 - AI Cost Drivers
05:45 - Resource Drivers
06:16 - AI Multipliers
07:21 - My Experience
08:45 - TenTorrent
12:10 - Backlash
13:15 - SCI
14:28 - NSCI
16:05 - Is Ai Foundational?
16:35 - Summary