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Inference leaves a storage bill: back-end data becomes the next constraint
Oct 22, 2026SOURCE: technologyreview.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, whoever controls inference-era data storage—pricing, retention, routing—controls how fast AI scales without choking budgets.
The old system prices AI as compute, but the inversion shifts attention to what models generate after they answer. Storage costs and data retention policies start steering deployment decisions.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.