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Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
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Caching. I'm guessing they download the internet to large storage arrays and then run neural network learning on them. Its probable they download all videos too and transcribe them later. So its not so much used for hosting content, but for teaching models.