US EditionProject Silica Breakthrough Lets Microsoft Store Digital Data in Glass for 10,000 Years
Microsoft's Project Silica uses lasers and machine learning to store data in low-cost borosilicate glass, preserving terabytes for over 10,000 years with error correction.
- Microsoft reported in Nature a laser-based method that etches data into 2mm borosilicate glass sheets.
- Because humanity produced zetabytes of data stored on hard drives that degrade, many digital records are less permanent than they appear.
- The team focused on borosilicate rather than specialty glass, as prior approaches used costly specialty glass impractical for scaling, while borosilicate offers durability and availability.
- While promising, the approach won't replace existing infrastructure soon, as Microsoft warned data centers won't be filled with glass hard drives any time soon, and constant backups remain unsustainable.
- If scaled, the method could preserve data for 10,000 years and safeguard AI and training datasets valuable to systems like ChatGPT.
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Microsoft says it can store data for 10,000 years on glass
Since the computer age began, humanity has produced zetabytes of data. And with the launch of ChatGPT, we’ve seen how powerful that data can be when leveraged to develop artificial intelligence.But that data is less permanent than it seems. It’s stored on hard drives that degrade over time. There are ways of keeping up with that degradation by constantly backing up and refreshing old data. But the reality is current methods are unsustainable.In …
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