OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' to have RAM inside PCs when data centers need it — but consumers aren't impressed

Sam Altman's provocative suggestion that personal computers should surrender their memory to data centers has exposed a widening gulf between Silicon Valley's AI ambitions and consumer skepticism about who should control the hardware sitting in their homes. The OpenAI chief's comments, which frame RAM as a misallocated resource in an age of cloud computing, reveal the industry's hunger to consolidate computational power—and consumers' deep wariness of that consolidation. What began as a technical argument about efficiency has become a flashpoint in a larger battle over whose interests tech leaders prioritize: their own AI infrastructure or the autonomy users expect from their devices.

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