Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

AI companies have bought out Western Digital's storage capacity for 2026. It's only February.
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AI boom wipes out Western Digital hard drives and sparks a crisis

Western Digital is grappling with a storage demand surge driven by artificial intelligence workloads, and the strain is showing up in the company’s own regulatory disclosures. The hard drive maker’s ...

AI Companies Bought Out All of Western Digital’s Hard Drives for 2026 Already

Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year.

It Seems Like the AI Apocalypse Has Come for Hard Drives

Really? Hard drives?
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Western Digital is out of hard drives, because AI (of course)

Western Digital is completely sold out of hard drive production capacity through 2026 due to massive demand from AI data centers. PCWorld reports that hard drive prices have surged nearly 50% in just ...