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475 AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/08/2026 13:00 EDT

AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have become far more expensive or are difficult to find at all, archivists said. Over the last several months, prices for both consumer level.

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