AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning

The AI infrastructure boom isn't just eating all the memory – it's also driving demand for storage, giving high-capacity hard drives a new lease of life, according to Seagate. The storage veteran says cloud operators are buying ever more mass-capacity hardware as AI applications generate and retain growing volumes of data. "Datacenter demand now represents approximately 90 percent of our exabyte shipments," chairman and CEO Dave Mosley told analysts during a call to discuss Seagate's Q4 an