Guys, as a European, does this only affects servers and hardware built in the US right? Isn’t most of it built in china and owned by US companies? So it’s literally only the US this will affect?
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Not sure how related it is, but in Canada, I'm seeing HDD and SSD prices generally being "on sale" for the regular prices from last year (same specs and everything!)
It's a massive and likely short term government tax increase for all consumers is what it all is.
Extra hundreds of billions of dollars taken from us by our corrupt government. All while I'm sure trumps inner circle bought Puts in the s&p several months ago so they can make even more boatloads of money.
I'm already seeing some huge increases on ic chips online here...
Part of me is wanting to put that new PC build I just started saving for on a credit card instead.
lol