Every DRAM manufacturer has pled guilty to price fixing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing

If we still have governments holding them accountable, then it will go down. If we don’t, it won’t

If you’re able to have swap, Zswap is supposed to be better.

Zram is intended for devices with no swap

The picture is quite obviously 12 packs, and around $2.50 / 12 pack was common south of Chicago around that time, too

Why is that surprising?

The push for more data centers has just been to fleece investors. There isn’t any organic demand for the output from them