Altman says personal DRAM is 'wasteful,' sparking pushback over compute ownership
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-10-31
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued it's "quite terrible" from a global allocation perspective for everyone to hold a chunk of the world's limited DRAM supply in personal computers, saying compute belongs in data centers. Critics pushed back hard, with one ex-official quipping that "the 'second amendment for compute' is just the second amendment" — framing the debate as centralizing compute vs individual ownership.
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