Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk

In an interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it is "quite terrible" from a global allocation perspective for people to have the world's limited DRAM supply sitting in their own computers and used only five percent of the time, arguing for maximum utilization in the cloud amid supply constraints. The article notes that Samsung and SK Hynix have long-term deals with cloud operators and projects like OpenAI's Stargate that have reserved much of the world's RAM output for the next few years, which is why laptops, phones, and other tech are getting more expensive.