OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that "it's quite terrible" for people to have RAM in their own PCs when it could go into AI data centers.
I have 512GB of ECC in one server, 64GB of DDR5 in my desktop, and probably another couple of hundred GB or so of DDR4 from previous desktops in a box on my shelf.
Starting to worry about a home invasion by one of the AI companies.
I have a combined somewhere around 512GiB DRAM. I am glad to know it pisses Altmann Off.
To answers the obvious: Homelab.
I’ve got at least 256 in sticks lying around. Maybe another 128 or so in SBCs and laptops with soldered ram.
I have 512GB of ECC in one server, 64GB of DDR5 in my desktop, and probably another couple of hundred GB or so of DDR4 from previous desktops in a box on my shelf.
Starting to worry about a home invasion by one of the AI companies.
aka your savings for retirement.
It will be worth its weight in gold or in steel, depends how the markets go.