The AI Eviction Wave
THE CRUNCH · EP 09
TAP TO PAUSE
PAUSED — TAP TO RESUME
The AI infrastructure buildout isn't just adding hardware — it's displacing it. Refresh cycles that used to run five-plus years are compressing to 18–36 months as racks get cleared for GPU-dense replacements, and the displaced equipment is piling up on loading docks at volumes the industry hasn't seen.
Every one of those displaced racks holds drives, and every drive holds data. The compliance obligations don't scale down because the volume scaled up — serialized evidence, chain of custody, and verified sanitization apply to asset ten thousand exactly as they applied to asset one.
Decommissioning at AI speed means industrializing the paper trail along with the logistics: bulk processing with per-serial tracking, NIST 800-88 destruction for everything from NVMe to GPU-adjacent storage, and value recovery on hardware the secondary market still wants badly.
We handle bulk decommissioning with the per-serial evidence chain intact — nationwide.