A recent Economist article (July 2025) describes how China is building a “national data ocean,” merging consumer behavior, industrial processes, and state activity into a unified system. This vast concentration of data fuels China’s AI strategy. The country is conducting an unprecedented experiment in which data is not merely a resource, but instead becomes a strategic weapon…
In our previous blogs, we outlined several efforts aimed at making data storage more sustainable. However, some critics remain unconvinced, often dismissing these efforts as little more than marketing rhetoric. They argue that green claims must be substantiated with hard data. Let’s take a closer look at some of the critical perspectives on the green…
Over the past two blogs, we explored how essential data storage is to building trustworthy AI, and how this rapidly growing storage demand is driving a mounting ecological footprint. While the first blog highlighted data as the oxygen of AI, the second exposed that this oxygen comes at a high cost: electricity consumption, water use, and CO₂…
In my previous blog, I highlighted how essential sufficient data storage is to deploy AI in a reliable and scalable manner. In this follow-up, we take a closer look at the darker side of our insatiable storage appetite: its environmental impact. Recent estimates suggest that by 2025, the global data volume will exceed 200 zettabytes….
This is the first part of a four-part blog series on the challenges of data storage in a world of ever-growing demand. A recent article by Vincent Oostakker in Data News (28 July 2025) caught my attention: “Without sufficient data storage, we can no longer trust AI.” In short, his article highlights a pressing issue: global data storage…
