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Tape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x

Fujifilm plans to increase its production capacity for magnetic tape data storage fivefold to address rising demand for archiving massive datasets. As AI development requires the long-term storage of immense volumes of information, magnetic tape has emerged as a cost-effective and energy-efficient alternative to traditional hard drives for cold storage.

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