The magnets in the machine
By Viktor Yoshimura – 8th of October 2026 Recovering rare earths from hard drives mostly doesn’t pay. Data-centre drives through ITAD are the one stream where it might, because someone else has already paid for the expensive steps. Rare-earth recycling usually breaks before the chemistry starts: getting the magnet out of the device costs more […]
Destruction is the last thing colos haven’t productised
By Viktor Yoshimura – 6th of October 2026 Colocation has productised almost every service inside the building. Drive destruction is the one it still leaves to a vendor on the loading bay. I think that is a product waiting to be built, and the hard part is not the machine. A tenant in a multi-tenant […]