Octave Klaba

“while 2024-built machines would not see a price increase, Gen 2026 would see a mammoth 87% increase in cost for consumers.”

“Gen 2026 servers saw a +51% increase in cost”

“its memory costs have increased sixfold and could rise to as much as twelvefold by early 2027.”

“In November 2025, Klaba anticipated cloud product prices rising 5 to 10% between April and September 2026.”

“In February 2026, announcing the year's first increase, he described an impact on cloud deployments between 2021 and 2025 of 2 to 6%, depending on hardware age.”