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

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· May 5, 2026 at 9:20 AM

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

The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet — The Internet Archive's building. Image: Beatrice Murch via Wikimedia Commons

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