OVHcloud to raise dedicated server prices up to 87% on RAM costs

French cloud provider OVHcloud will hike dedicated server prices by as much as 87% starting in September, citing a spike in memory (RAM) costs. The company is calling the situation "RAMaggedon."

Why it matters: This is a concrete, consumer-facing effect of the AI-driven memory shortage already visible in Samsung's and SK hynix's price hikes and record profits. It shows the chip crunch is now passing through to ordinary cloud-hosting customers, not just AI labs buying GPUs and HBM directly.