Everyone's hyped about AI breakthroughs—but almost nobody is talking about the bill that's being handed to normal people.

In this video, we break down how the AI gold rush is quietly driving up the price of basic hardware: GPUs, RAM, SSDs, and even CPUs. Hyperscalers are signing multi‑billion‑dollar contracts and buying entire foundry runs of chips, and that doesn't just drain supply—it resets the global price floor for everyone else. The result? Gamers, PC builders, small IT shops, and indie ML labs are all forced to pay more for the same components they used to buy a few years ago.

We'll look at how this "micro‑inflation" shows up as an extra 10–20% on a part here and there, and how that snowballs into a serious hidden tax across a full build or refresh cycle. This is the new two‑tier hardware market: trillion‑dollar AI giants at the top, and everyone else fighting over overpriced scraps.

If you care about hardware, open ecosystems, or just not getting screwed by invisible market dynamics, this one's for you.