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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Huh, I didn't think hard discs would go up much because they use, y'know, discs?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hard drives are still the king of mass storage, so datacenters use them extensively

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

There's limited global manufacturing capacity. AI companies have been buying up all they can get to store their datasets on. They're not fast enough for the models to run off but they still need them to store the training data which is in the thousands of petabytes.