Opportunity Overview
UK-based SME, HoloMem, has developed a pioneering, low-cost and more sustainable holographic data storage (HDS) solution allowing data-centres to expand and meet exponential data storage capacity growth across the global datasphere.
The ~5.44bn people using the internet across the globe generate ~2,500 Petabytes(PB) of data/day. By 2025, 181 Zettabytes(ZB) (181m PB) of data (annually) will require storage. That figure is projected to increase 33x, rising to ~2,142ZB by 2035\. Compounding this issue, businesses are buying up data space for back-up data, hospitals need greater capacity to store records, the increased application of AI requires vast amounts of easy-to-access data, and governments seek solutions that enable them to create economic conditions for data-centre market growth alongside Net Zero targets \[BBC,2024\].
Most digital data is stored within vast data warehouses that need to deliver rapid read/write capabilities. Entrenched legacy solutions, such as linear-open-tape (LTOv9), hard disk drives (HDD), and solid-state drives (SDD), are energy-intensive, costly to maintain, and are expensive and resource intensive at scale. ~40% of data-centre running costs are attributed to air-conditioning stabilised thermal environments \[ITPro,2022\] and current energy-intensive solutions don't have the capacity to scale without significant energy infrastructure development. More widely, by 2030, existing data-centres will undermine global emission reduction targets, forming ~8% of total global greenhouse emissions \[International-Energy-Agency,2023\].
'HoloDrive' uses micro-holograms to store up to 1PB of data upon readily accessible, sustainable and recyclable photopolymer media - a marked shift away from resource-intensive magnetic tape and neodymium-iron-boron used in LTO/HDD/SDD solutions. In addition, HoloDrive requires no active operational cooling, and is a cost-effective, sustainable and high-density storage solution for near term data-centre market...
The ~5.44bn people using the internet across the globe generate ~2,500 Petabytes(PB) of data/day. By 2025, 181 Zettabytes(ZB) (181m PB) of data (annually) will require storage. That figure is projected to increase 33x, rising to ~2,142ZB by 2035\. Compounding this issue, businesses are buying up data space for back-up data, hospitals need greater capacity to store records, the increased application of AI requires vast amounts of easy-to-access data, and governments seek solutions that enable them to create economic conditions for data-centre market growth alongside Net Zero targets \[BBC,2024\].
Most digital data is stored within vast data warehouses that need to deliver rapid read/write capabilities. Entrenched legacy solutions, such as linear-open-tape (LTOv9), hard disk drives (HDD), and solid-state drives (SDD), are energy-intensive, costly to maintain, and are expensive and resource intensive at scale. ~40% of data-centre running costs are attributed to air-conditioning stabilised thermal environments \[ITPro,2022\] and current energy-intensive solutions don't have the capacity to scale without significant energy infrastructure development. More widely, by 2030, existing data-centres will undermine global emission reduction targets, forming ~8% of total global greenhouse emissions \[International-Energy-Agency,2023\].
'HoloDrive' uses micro-holograms to store up to 1PB of data upon readily accessible, sustainable and recyclable photopolymer media - a marked shift away from resource-intensive magnetic tape and neodymium-iron-boron used in LTO/HDD/SDD solutions. In addition, HoloDrive requires no active operational cooling, and is a cost-effective, sustainable and high-density storage solution for near term data-centre market...
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| Issuing agency | Innovate UK |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Category | Warehousing |
| Estimated value | $698,816 |
| Published | May 31, 2025 |
| Procurement stage | Active solicitation |
| Response due | December 31, 2026 |
| Status | Open — accepting responses |
| Official source | View original notice |
| Last verified | August 09, 2026 |
Source: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) — Open Government Licence v3.0.
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