Sam Altman says personal computers hoarding DRAM is wasteful: 'it belongs in data centers'
rbhar90 · x · 2026-10-31
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that, from a global allocation perspective, it's "quite terrible" for everyone to keep a chunk of the world's limited DRAM supply in their own computers — RAM, he says, belongs in data centers. The post riffs on a Bundesliga meme format (FC Augsburg complaining about rivals sitting on the league's limited supply of points), framing Altman's remark as a signal of the broader push toward centralized compute and cloud memory over local hardware.
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