exactly my thinking. And yes, sigh...

I also doubt the savings. And the mentioning of a 70 years old technology is misleading. I am dead sure the tapes were not 70 years old, they just refer to the technology in general.

DNA storage is far away from being ready for production. More promising is ceramic storage or glass like Cerabyte and Silica by Microsoft.

Kind of doesn't make sense. If they were to put it on a better and faster accessible storage medium they would have never saved a dime.

I truly hope not but am thinking the same thing. They would most definitely be stored on TAPE in the cloud which will cost them more long-term. This is painful.

that's what I am fearing as well because any other option (optical storage, HDDs etc.) is just unthinkable. His math will not work out with a cloud service at least not long-term.

Actually, there companies that look into this (well, something similar) and are close to actual products, e.g. Cerabyte. The use ultra thin glas sheets, cover it with a ceramic layer and write data onto that. Recyclable and nearly indestructible and easy to read. Also check on MoM (Memory of Mankind