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

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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 Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/CackleRooster on 2026-05-05 13:34:26+00:00.

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