Tech leaders are openly arguing that consumer‑owned memory (DRAM) is an inefficient use of scarce compute and that centralizing RAM in cloud data centers yields higher utilization. That position reframes a technical supply problem as a justification for routing more hardware and software demand through corporate cloud services.
— This shifts a seemingly technical decision about where models run into a public debate about ownership, vendor lock‑in, local control, infrastructure subsidies, and antitrust — all of which are political choices, not purely engineering ones.
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2026.10.30
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Sam Altman's on‑record quote: "it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time," said in a public interview, defending centralized cloud allocation.
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