Altman says home DRAM is a waste as memory prices soar; critics blame OpenAI's datacenter buildout
jonerp · x · 2026-11-09
Pivot to AI reports that Sam Altman, on a podcast with Stripe's John Collison, argued that from a global allocation perspective it's 'quite terrible' for everyone to keep the world's limited DRAM in personal computers used 5% of the time — cloud maximizes utilization, implying local inference and open-source models waste memory. After backlash he claimed the comment was taken out of context, saying it targeted home AI rigs and that work should be outsourced to OpenAI. Critics note memory prices have gone through the roof because of the supply-constrained environment created by datacenter buildouts like OpenAI's planned Compute Campuses.
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