Season 2 · Episode 1988
Will Glass Storage Save Us From the Data Deluge?
Quartz glass promises 10,000-year data storage, but can it scale before 180 zettabytes make it obsolete?
My Weird Prompts · Daniel Rosehill
April 4, 202622m 59s
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Show Notes
We explore Microsoft's Project Silica and the quest for the "eternal" storage medium. With global data projected to hit 180 zettabytes annually, our current magnetic and plastic storage solutions are becoming increasingly fragile. This episode dives into the mechanics of femtosecond lasers writing 3D voxels inside borosilicate glass, the massive commercialization challenges, and whether this indestructible format can beat the tape storage industry before our data archives collapse under their own weight.