Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

Meta's Quest VR headsets will see a $50–$100 price increase due to rising component costs, particularly memory chips, driven by the company's aggressive AI infrastructure investments. Meta's $115–$135 billion capital expenditure plan, including $21 billion in CoreWeave and a $10 billion El Paso data center expansion, has exacerbated chip shortages.