AI, data storage and the quest to stay ahead So here we are, in the middle of what they're calling an "AI-driven industrial revolution." Sounds fancy, right? It's like the regular industrial revolution, but instead of steam engines, we've got computers that can beat us at chess and write poetry that makes Shakespeare look like a rookie. And behind all this technological wizardry? Good old-fashioned hard drives. Yes, those clunky boxes that make weird clicking noises and occasionally decide to erase your vacation photos just for fun. Storage Wars: America vs. China in the Battle of the Biggest Digital Warehouse Let me paint you a picture: Imagine you're trying to store all the selfies ever taken in human history. Now multiply that by a billion, add in every cat video ever uploaded, and throw in all the data from self-driving cars trying to figure out if that blob in the distance is a pedestrian or a particularly ambitious trash bag. That's roughly how mu...