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The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet

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The burgeoning demand for storage drives by AI data centers is causing significant price increases and shortages, impacting organizations like the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Foundation. These entities are finding it more expensive and difficult to acquire the necessary hard drives and SSDs to continue their work of archiving the internet. This situation is compounded by stricter anti-scraping measures on websites, which inadvertently hinder archival efforts. AI

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IMPACT Accelerates the cost and difficulty of preserving digital history, potentially leading to data loss and reduced access to information.

RANK_REASON Significant impact on critical infrastructure (internet archiving) due to AI industry demand for hardware.

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The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet

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  1. 404 Media TIER_1 · Jason Koebler ·

    The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and 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.

  2. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 · Hassam Nasir ·

    Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots

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  3. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

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  7. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

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    The # AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder for digital archivists, academics, # Wikipedia , and hobby data hoarders to save data and # Archive the Internet https://www. 404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive- shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-arch…

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