Every AI response leaves a data trail. WD research found that a single 8-second AI-generated video clip leaves more than 500MB of back-end data behind—130x the size of the file the user actually sees. As inference scales, that compounding storage footprint becomes one of the fastest-growing costs in the AI stack. Read Tim Rausch's full breakdown in MIT Technology Review: https://lnkd.in/ddz4C478
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