Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing a...

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/AnonRetro on 2026-05-08 19:35:19+00:00.

Original Title: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots