Data in the Age of AI: From abundance to sudden scarcity

Livemint | 08 February 2024

We are living through a data explosion. When Steve Jobs released the Apple II in 1977, a terabyte of memory occupied a large warehouse and cost over $100 million. Today, you can buy a 1TB hard drive smaller than your palm for under $100. That’s a million-fold reduction in price and size: the effect of Moore’s Law, compounding over 50 years.