…is making the cost of hard drives increase….
The colossal data center buildout crucial to tech titans’ investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure has sent prices for solid state drives and other storage spiraling upwards, and it’s having unintended effects across other sectors that rely on consistent access to affordable memory and storage. The Internet Archive, which operates web archiving stalwart Wayback Machine, is feeling the pinch, as their preferred 28 to 30 terabyte drives are either completely unavailable or very expensive. The projects gather 100 terabytes of new material every day, and have 210 petabytes of material archived, so the cost of storage is a real concern. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia and other projects, has to maintain its data center, and has had to get clever about how it handles hardware.
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