Western Digital says it has created an initiative Restore the rare earth metal From hard drives to ride bicycles out of data centers.
Technology company, best known for digital storage products, says that its advanced recyclable and rare Earth material capture programs with Microsoft and two other companies have parted for the rare earth metal, including neodiumum, dysprosium and pusodiumium.
The rare earth elements between the United States and China have taken new significance between the rare earth elements. Beijing said in response to imposing tariffs on President Donald Trump’s China imposed on China Rarely Earth Minerals The suspended export To us These minerals are important for producing many high-tech products and are available in products such as computers, cars and military hardware.
Western Digital Vice President Jackie Jong on Thursday said in a blog post on Thursday that the systems were upgraded to the hard drives on data centers servers were often destroyed due to protection. According to the rust, the rare earth metal recovery was not always a priority in that process.
“The rare earths often melt with steel because many recovery processes are involved in a highly erosive process that is not environmentally or economic or economic worlds. Our divisions wanted a different approach to searching for HDDS and their valuable materials recycling,” said Jung.
In addition to Microsoft, the program also includes Recycling critical materials And Microsoft’s recycling partner agency Pedal Points RecyclingThe If the primary pilot program earned more than 90%of the re -claimed percentage, the next two were brought in, Jung said.
