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Start free trial →The WAN Show · October 2026
The hosts were reacting to a remark attributed to Sam Altman that it's wasteful for individuals to keep RAM in their own computers. Linus first played devil's advocate, then rejected the comparison. He said he wasn't sure OpenAI itself is one of the hoarders.
…ice rinks that we could build where would we rather them be in the basements of uh famous canadian singers or in community centers where they can be used all the time not just when he isn't on tour so fundamentally i actually agree with the spirit of what mr altman is saying however there are still
this is still hedging
however this is why i'm not gonna play the game okay on this one because i really need the words to come out of my own mouth where i explain why everything that i just said has nothing to do with sam altman yeah yeah yeah yeah because the problem with the ai industry is that they are consuming all of these finite resources and utilizing them in their own way for maximum shareholder profit with no regard for the consequences so actually nothing to do with a publicly owned pool that everybody can use at a reasonable price okay and number two that because the utilization of this hardware is actually power constrained right now they're buying this stuff i'm not sure if open ai specifically is doing this but i know that multiple hyperscalers are buying this stuff knowing that they have absolutely no way of powering it simply so that their competitors can't get it and so hoarding whether it's individuals hoarding things that can only be used at Maximum, one-third of the day, or whether it is corporations hoarding things that at maximum they can power only a fraction of that's bad. We
went from the tech industry hoarding like people, like hiring everybody they could, not allowing anyone to have them in a competition sense to firing all of the people. Yeah, competing to see who can lay them
off the most. Now we're
gonna hoard hardware and