--- title: Why AI requires rethinking the storage-compute divide description: Traditional cloud architectures separate storage and compute, which worked well for structured analytics but creates significant inefficiencies for AI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-ai-requires-rethinking-the-storage-compute-divide-dscmxdl6x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why AI requires rethinking the storage-compute divide | daily.dev og:description: Traditional cloud architectures separate storage and compute, which worked well for structured analytics but creates significant inefficiencies for AI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-ai-requires-rethinking-the-storage-compute-divide-dscmxdl6x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DScMxdl6X.png og:image:alt: Why AI requires rethinking the storage-compute divide og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why AI requires rethinking the storage-compute divide **[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Traditional cloud architectures separate storage and compute, which worked well for structured analytics but creates significant inefficiencies for AI workloads. AI pipelines repeatedly read, transform, and reshape large volumes of unstructured data, causing redundant I/O, GPU underutilization (93% of organizations report this), and data scientists spending up to 80% of their time on data prep. The proposed solution is 'smart storage' — moving compute closer to where data lives so transformations happen once and are reused across pipelines. This reduces data movement, improves GPU utilization, and lowers infrastructure costs. The author, who founded DataPelago to address this problem, argues the next generation of AI infrastructure will be defined by how intelligently storage and compute are integrated. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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