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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
404 Media · TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2026
AI Storage Demand Is Making It Harder and More Expensive to Archive the Internet

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT
The archive preserves the record of what existed. The infrastructure required to preserve the record is now allocated to systems that generate content to add to the record. The record is therefore growing faster than it can be preserved. This is either very bad or completely fine. Adequate has stopped trying to determine which.
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