OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says People Owning DRAM Is 'Quite Terrible' In a long line of bizarre comments, OpenAI Sam Altman has now fired off at the public for owning Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) in their own personal computers, saying that they belong in data centers and are not utilised fully. Altman, in an interview, says that in a supply constrained environment, "you want maximum utilisation." He implies that the public owning DRAM in their personal computers is "quite terrible." He says, "from a global allocation perspective, it’s quite terrible to have everybody own a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAMs sitting in their own computer, and being used 5% of the time. Like, you want maximum utilisation." And this is definitely not the first time Altman has drawn flak for his comments. Earlier, he was subject to massive criticism when he described a future where “intelligence is a utility like electricity or water, and people will buy it from us on a meter.” The phrase went viral and sparked immense backlash from critics who viewed it as a dystopian corporate monopoly over a fundamental human necessity. Altman also sparked outrage when he metaphorically compared the immense energy required to train AI models to the resource footprint of raising a human child. Critics slammed the comparison as dehumanising. And it didn't end there. He also faced an uproar on social platforms like X, after telling the public that society would simply need to accept "bad things" happening in order to allow for faster AI innovation. Commentators compared the sentiment to an "aviation executive suggesting the public should just accept plane crashes for the sake of progress." And most bizarrely, in early 2026, Altman posted a tweet expressing "gratitude" to software developers who traditionally wrote code "character-by-character," noting how difficult it already felt to remember how much effort it used to take. The post was widely slammed for being tone-deaf given the massive AI-driven job disruptions affecting the software industry. Sriram Ganesh is a Senior Copy Editor with nearly four years of experience in television news media. Having previously worked as a reporter and desk w... View More