Tag: AI Infrastructure
The era of the sub-£80 smartphone may be over. With component economics shifting, entry-level handsets are increasingly considered “permanently uneconomical” to manufacture. A memory chip shortage fuelled by AI data centres is now expected to run through 2027, and consumers will feel it in their wallets long before the fabs catch up.
Every time you ask ChatGPT to write an email or generate an image, somewhere in the world, a data centre is quietly draining the equivalent of several bathtubs of water.
