Microsoft Unveils Glass Storage System Lasting 10,000 Years

Microsoft's Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 Years

"This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation."

Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass

Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.

Microsoft can now store data for 10,000 years on everyday glass thanks to laser breakthrough

Improvements to the data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more accessible than before.

Laser-etched glass can store data for millennia, Microsoft says

Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era?

Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years

Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with data

This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years

Nature, Published online: 18 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00534-8Microsoft unveils a laser-modified glass that could store huge amounts of data for millennia — plus, a trial of mRNA vaccines to prevent a form of breast cancer recurring.