Data storage company Simment By 2030, efforts are being made to develop 100 hard drives, which touts data centers’ demand for 70-year-old technologies that have thrived AI.

Seagate Chief Business Officer BS Teh told CNBC that the company's goal is to 2030, the company's largest hard drive Seagate currently produced is the 36-Tebit Exos M model.

“You might be thinking, ‘Who needs it?’” Teh said, referring to the idea of ​​100 hard drives. "Okay, a lot."

"I think there is definitely a strong demand," he added. "This is a key driving force for the industry to be able to achieve the storage capacity needed by the market, because no other technology can produce the capacity of this storage technology to meet the growth needed by the market."

In recent years, Haimen has been touting itself as an AI player because of the rise of basic models, such as those developed by Openai. Microsoft and Google. In the computer hardware market, the AI ​​boom has benefited participants to a large extent Nvidia This makes the graphics processing unit need to train and run AI models.

But the prosperity of data centers has an impact on the environment. Data centers require a lot of operating power.

According to the International Energy Agency, a single CHATGPT query consumes an average of 2.9 watt hours per request - a typical Google search requires 10 times as much as it would require to use ChatGpt in the 9 billion internet searches performed per day, requiring almost a year of additional power and almost 10 tons.

Teh explains that Seagate is working to address climate issues with AI energy needs by increasing the storage density of its hard drives and ensuring the basis for its manufacturing.

“We focus on what we can influence and what we can influence, which comes down to how to have a sustainable way of production,” Teh said. “We have a goal to make sure all of our plants use renewable energy to produce products.”

He added: "Using the product itself, we designed it to have lower power per Terabyte, or have a higher density of the device itself, so when you actually integrate the product into your data center, you need less space, less power, less functionality because you use fewer drives to meet that capacity."

It is worth mentioning that Seagate faces competition from other technologies – especially solid-state drives that use flash chips instead of disks to store data electronically. However, in embodying carbon, hard drives are "more sustainable device technology" than solid-state drives.