Wishing the RAM shortage makes school Chromebooks unaffordable — AI spillover hits education
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-10-17
A provocative take: the author quotes an article on schools giving students free Chromebooks and says they hope the AI-driven RAM shortage accelerates until primary schools can no longer afford to hand every student a device — arguing kids should learn to read and write properly before getting a personal one.
It's a glimpse of how AI compute expansion's impact on memory prices is spilling over from data centers into education hardware budgets.
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