I think that reasoning works for PSUs as power conversion may use the same components (do datacenters even run on AC power tho? Or do they run DC and then step down?), but most consumer CPU coolers are milled alluminium plus a fan, the only overlap I can imagine are the heatpipes.
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MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 13 hours agoThey still have to be made from something, and it just so happens that ‘something’ overlaps with stuff datacenters currently vacuum out of the market
Damage@feddit.it 12 hours ago
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Copper? Is there really a copper shortage?
I mean, the supply is pretty large for that. You’d think that electrical rollout in developing nations would have a higher impact than all the ram in the world.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Apparently yeah