Lasers, Magnets and the $40 Billion Fight to Store the World’s Data

ronjor · Mar 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM

Story by John Keilman 09 Mar 2025

The fate of an industry is riding on a laser smaller than a grain of salt.
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Data-storage company Seagate developed this diminutive heat source to help it encode information in ever-greater quantities on the spinning magnetic platters of hard disk drives. Stacked by the thousands in data centers, the drives hold everything from home movies to medical records to factory log files.
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