AI Data Centers Spark Memory Chip Shortage for Automakers, Hospitals
Nine US trade groups asked the Trump administration to address an AI-driven memory chip shortage that threatens price increases and supply disruptions in automotive, medical, telecommunications, and retail sectors. The June 3 letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns that AI infrastructure is consuming an outsized share of global memory production, creating constraints that could ripple across large segments of the economy.
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