Artificial intelligence drives need for real data storage innovations

In southeastern Mesa, Arizona, construction crews are hard at work on a state-of-the-art data center. The $1 billion facility will open in 2026 and provide approximately 2.5 million square feet of processing power — the equivalent of more than 43 football fields — for Meta , the parent company of Facebook. This is a world where every text message, phone call and website click leaves a virtual trace, and all that information must be stored somewhere. The new Meta Mesa Data Center is a nod to the