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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' to have RAM inside PCs when data centers need it

Elaine Nov 2, 2026, 10:00 pm EST	OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' to have RAM inside PCs when data centers need it OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' to have RAM inside PCs when data centers need it Nov 2, 2026 The increasing demands from data centers powering AI engines has plunged us into a global RAM shortage crisis, and the CEO of one of the companies responsible thinks the memory that is available should be in data centers rather than individual PCs. Read More I dunno if I'm reading this right, but what is the use of getting rich off data centers if they take away all our computers chips? Just wondering.

Nov 2, 2026, 10:00 pm EST

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' to have RAM inside PCs when data centers need it
Nov 2, 2026
The increasing demands from data centers powering AI engines has plunged us into a global RAM shortage crisis, and the CEO of one of the companies responsible thinks the memory that is available should be in data centers rather than individual PCs.
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I dunno if I'm reading this right, but what is the use of getting rich off data centers if they take away all our computers chips?

Just wondering.