DOGE "saves" a million dollars by taking critical government archives off of best-in-class, durable tape archives and putting them on hard drives

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Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records

DOGE claimed it saved "$1M per year" by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes to digital storage.

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites say...