A technique for labeling and retrieving DNA data files from a large pool could help make DNA data storage feasible https://phys.org/news/2021-06-technique-dna-large-pool-storage.html
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Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
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On Earth right now, there are about 10 trillion gigabytes of digital data, and every day, humans produce emails, photos, tweets, and other digital files that add up to another 2.5 million gigabytes of data. Much of this data is stored in enormous facilities known as exabyte data centers (an exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes), which can be the size of several football fields and cost around $1 billion to build and maintain.
