Western Digital is out of hard drives, because AI (of course)

It kind of feels like the last six months of my job has just been telling you about all the different ways the “AI” industry is making life suck. And I’m just a guy who writes about computers! I barely even touch on its environmental impact or mental health issues. But I digress. Here’s the latest way in which the “AI” industry is making life suck for all of us: “AI” data centers are gobbling up all the hard drives.

Yes, hard drives. Spinning disks that hold ones and zeroes. I can’t...