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AI Hard Drive Shortage Making It More Expensive, Harder to Archive the Internet

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them. AI-driven demand is exacerbating the shortage, severely impacting internet archiving efforts.

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AI Hard Drive Shortage Making It More Expensive, Harder to Archive the Internet
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  • AI data centers' surging demand for hard drives causes supply shortages and price spikes.
  • Organizations like the Internet Archive and Wikimedia face significantly higher archiving costs.
  • Academic researchers and hobbyist archivists are also severely affected, forced to cut back or pause projects.
  • The hard drive shortage highlights the impact of AI infrastructure expansion on traditional IT supply chains.

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