Game of Thrones actor and former World's Strongest Man Hafþór Björnsson has hoisted 996 lbs, 283 Petabytes, and about $32 million worth of next-gen SSDs in what has to be the most expensive deadlift in history

First reported by Tom's Hardware, Icelandic strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson⁠—who won the 2019 World's Strongest Man competition and played Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in Game of Thrones⁠—has completed a 996 lbs "deadlift of data," hoisting thousands of next-generation, 128 terabyte SSDs at the SD24 computing conference. With each drive likely to command north of $10,000 once they come to market, this has to be the most expensive deadlift ever performed.

The stunt was organized by HPC...