Consumer electronics, from laptops and smartphones to gaming consoles, are becoming increasingly costlier as artificial intelligence data centers drive up demand for memory chips, reports and tracking data reveal.
Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported Saturday that memory chips are being bought in large quantities for AI data centers, leaving fewer available for devices sold to consumers.
"We were actually used to devices becoming cheaper," Tomas Hochstenbach of Dutch tech site Tweakers said.
"You are probably buying a worse device now than a year ago.”
Price data from Tweakers' Pricewatch shows consumers are paying 50 euros ($57), 100 euros or even 200 euros more, depending on the amount of memory, Hochstenbach said.
