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The rising costs of RAM and other computing components<\/a> are pushing up the price of Meta’s Quest VR headsets, which the company says will increase by $50\u2013$100 (about 12\u201320 percent) starting on April 19. In announcing that price increase on Thursday<\/a>, the company cited the “global surge in the price of critical components\u2014specifically memory chips\u2014[that] is impacting almost every category of consumer electronics, including VR.”<\/p>\n

But unlike many<\/a> of the other<\/a> tech companies<\/a> that have been pushed<\/a> into similar price increases<\/a> in recent months<\/a>, Meta’s own spending priorities are at least partly to blame for the rising prices of those components. The company’s recent hard pivot to the “AI superintelligence” race<\/a> has directly contributed to the conditions that are now making its own Quest headsets more expensive.<\/p>\n

Spending like a drunk sailor<\/h2>\n

In January, Meta announced that it plans to spend $115 billion to $135 billion<\/a> on capital expenditures this year, up significantly from $72 billion in 2025 and just $28 billion as recently as 2023. The vast majority of that investment is going into AI infrastructure, including a recent $21 billion in new investment in data center company CoreWeave<\/a> (in addition to $14.2 billion originally committed) and an additional $10 billion recently committed to a planned El Paso data center<\/a> (up from $1.5 billion initially).<\/p>\n

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