Sam Altman Defends Data Centers Hogging Global DRAM Supply

Sam Altman thinks it is actually quite terrible that your home computer has any DRAM in it at all. Appearing on the Cheeky Pint podcast, the OpenAI boss argued that consumer memory is a waste because personal computers sit idle most of the time. He believes the world's limited memory supply belongs in maximum utilization cloud data centers instead. And here is the catch. The man running ChatGPT is complaining about a memory shortage that his own industry helped create. He was specifically bemoaning solo AI builders craving local compute power rather than gamers. Yet his data centers keep gobbling up the parts while big tech green goals fall by the wayside.