3 November 2026
Altman says home RAM use is wasteful; Musk mocks the remark
First reported
Tom's Hardware ran this on , a day before the other 3 sources picked it up.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose company runs AI models in data centers, said on a YouTube show that people keeping RAM in home PCs is wasteful.
- He argued the world's limited memory supply is better used in cloud data centers, where it is used far more of the time than a home machine's.
- Elon Musk, who owns the social network X, responded with a meme, while rising RAM prices already hit consumers and chipmakers warn of shortages into 2027.
Reported by TechRadar, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, Tom's Hardware