Sam Altman says it's "terrible" for RAM to sit inside PCs instead of data centers
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The big picture: The AI boom has siphoned most of the tech industry's RAM supply, driving up prices and making consumer electronics less affordable. Recent comments from Sam Altman, arguably the man most responsible for launching the boom, frame the situation as a conflict between cloud and local compute, and he clearly favors the cloud.
In an interview on the YouTube channel Cheeky Pint, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that it's more efficient to direct the world's tightening supply of memory to AI data centers than to local devices. The comments drew immediate backlash as hardware prices continue to climb.
About 29 minutes in, Altman says it's "quite terrible" for DRAM to be locked inside consumer hardware, where it may be used only 5% of the time. Because data centers run their hardware...
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