Allah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.archive.isexternal-linkmessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up1254arrow-down18
arrow-up1246arrow-down1external-linkThe AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.archive.isAllah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square36linkfedilink
minus-squarelath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 months agoAnyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?
minus-squarejellyfishhunter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoHyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
minus-squarerichieadler@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThey hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.
Anyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?
Hyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
IIRC it was Zimbabwe?
They hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.