During a recent podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it didn’t make sense for individual people to run their own AI models at home and that their RAM chips were far better off being used inside the industry’s data centers, arguing that “from a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of [dynamic RAM] sitting in their own computer.” The comments drew a heated reaction, especially among PC enthusiasts. On election night, Altman went on X to set the record straight, writing, “I actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers, and it is f***ing annoying that this was taken out of context,” and adding, “I have been arguing for the world to ramp up memory production for a long time.” He also replied to another user, “I want you to have so much [RAM],” and “Let’s build more.” The article says data centers have proven to be an enormous political liability, with plenty of moratoriums on the horizon, and that chipmakers remain in crisis mode, with Intel experiencing its worst single day wipeout in market value since 1974 last week.