{"id":246689,"date":"2026-11-05T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/autonomous-microfactory-turns-digital-files-into-dna-for-power-free-preservation"},"modified":"2026-11-05T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:09:59","slug":"autonomous-microfactory-turns-digital-files-into-dna-for-power-free-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/autonomous-microfactory-turns-digital-files-into-dna-for-power-free-preservation","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous microfactory turns digital files into DNA for power-free preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to projections, the volume of digital data created, captured, copied and consumed worldwide will reach 175 zettabytes (ZB) in 2026. This is equivalent to the storage capacity of billions of hard drives, such as those found in our laptops. With the rise of artificial intelligence, this global \u2018datasphere\u2019 continues to expand at an exponential rate.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its remarkable storage capacity and longevity, synthetic DNA is emerging as a potentially revolutionary medium for storing information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn theory, one gram of DNA could store the equivalent of the digital collections of the world\u2019s largest libraries for tens of thousands of years,\u201d explains Pierre-Yves Burgi, deputy director of the Division of Information and Communication Systems and Technologies (DISTIC) at UNIGE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to projections, the volume of digital data created, captured, copied and consumed worldwide will reach 175 zettabytes (ZB) in 2026. This is equivalent to the storage capacity of billions of hard drives, such as those found in our laptops. With the rise of artificial intelligence, this global \u2018datasphere\u2019 continues to expand at an exponential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}