{
  "id": 17330930,
  "title": "OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says Home PCs Are Wasting RAM",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/openais-sam-altman-says-home-pcs-are-wasting-ram",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-31T03:26:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lowyat.NET",
    "slug": "lowyat-net",
    "url": "https://www.lowyat.net/2026/408870/openai-sam-altman-home-pcs-wasting-ram/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman expressed concerns that home computers are inefficiently utilizing valuable memory resources. Speaking on the Cheeky Pint podcast, Altman argued that instead of allocating DRAM to personal devices, it would be better to concentrate these memory supplies in data centers where they can serve more users. During the discussion, Altman pointed out that having DRAM on individual computers is wasteful when much of the memory is not being used - \"it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time.\" Despite the availability of AI inference on personal hardware becoming more popular, Altman believes concentrating memory resources in cloud infrastructure is preferable given the constrained memory supply. Altman's comments come amid a global memory shortage, as demand from AI companies and cloud providers puts pressure on DRAM supply.",
  "summary": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that people running AI models locally on their computers are contributing to the inefficient use of the world’s limited memory supply. He argues that instead of having large amounts of RAM sitting in personal computers for most of the day, the resources would be better allocated to data centres, where […] The post OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says Home PCs Are Wasting RAM…",
  "key_points": [
    "Sam Altman says home PCs waste RAM.",
    "DRAM should be concentrated in data centers.",
    "5% usage of global DRAM supply on individual computers."
  ],
  "editors_take": "Prioritizing centralized data center infrastructure over personal hardware shifts the burden of the global memory shortage onto individual users to maximize the efficiency of limited DRAM supplies.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}