Thanks to AI, video game hardware costs will keep spiraling out of control

A couple of months ago, OpenAI signed a deal with two top memory chip producers in an effort to power the tech company’s massive, state-sanctioned Stargate project. The move was inevitably going to have major consequences for basically every industry, but the brunt of it was certain to hit tech-focused products. Now, we’re starting to get a better sense of how things might shake out in the world of video games — and it’s looking grim.