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Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by YetAnotherNick on Monday February 23, 2026 @09:28AM (#47122793)
Yes. In fact that's not just normal, that's very frequent in market.
Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by MBCook on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:05AM (#47123215)
Please provide historical examples.
Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by MrBuddyCasino on Monday February 23, 2026 @11:24AM (#47124465)
The first known example is the 6th century BC, where a greek philosopher cornered the market on olive oil presses, because he predicted a richt harvest via his knowledge of astronomy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market#Thales_of...

Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by YetAnotherNick on Monday February 23, 2026 @02:14PM (#47127263)
Tyson Foods, Cargill, JBS, and National Beef controls roughly 85% of the U.S. beef market

CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx manage over 80% of all prescriptions in the U.S

Amazon buys 50% of all books.

These examples are even more extreme than at least 3 major clouds present in the US buying hardware.

Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by toraway on Monday February 23, 2026 @02:55PM (#47127841)
The parent comment specified a company that has never turned a profit cornering the entire market.
Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by YetAnotherNick on Monday February 23, 2026 @03:58PM (#47128710)
Not even sure which company are they referring to. I assumed Amazon or Google or Microsoft or Oracle, but all of them have turned profit.

I don't think OpenAI purchase even comes even close to any of these.

Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by marcosdumay on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @03:54PM (#47142856)
Well, you think wrong. OpenAI is the one that pre-hired 40% of the world's memory fab capacity.

And if you are going to protest with the common "OpenAI doesn't even build datacenters themselves!", yes, they don't, and it's a complete non-sequitur.