BioCompute Is Betting the Future of Data Storage Runs on Biological
The world is producing data faster than it can afford to keep it. Most of that data is cold. It is rarely touched, but it cannot be deleted, so it sits on tape and disk that wear out, draw power, and have to be copied to new hardware every few years. The recurring costs are exponential.
DNA has always been the obvious answer. It is denser than anything silicon can offer, and it lasts for centuries. The problem was never the medium. It was the cost of writing to it. BioCompute, a deep-tech company based in Berkeley, was built around a single idea for getting past that.
Most approaches write data by synthesizing new strands from scratch, which is where the expense lives, and each strand can only be written once. BioCompute writes by marking reusable templates instead of building new ones. The medium is reused rather than consumed. That...
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