OpenAI CEO Sam Altman would rather have RAM put into data centers
Altman says it’s ‘quite terrible’ that RAM is sitting in individual PCs
The comments haven’t gone down well with consumers online
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. Offering up an opinion that’s unlikely to add to his popularity among the general public, OpenAI boss Sam Altman told the Cheeky Pint podcast (via IGN ) that "from a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer." Individual PCs rarely make full use of their RAM, was Altman’s larger point, whereas data centers often do. "You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply constrained environment," the OpenAI CEO continued. "And somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that."…