1/ Introducing Filecoin Onchain Cloud: an open, verifiable cloud built on content-addressed data, transparent service delivery, and programmable payments.
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A typical enterprise data lake doubles every 12 to 18 months.
AI agents are now the ones querying it, the way an employee would, not a script running on a schedule.
Filecoin stores that growing lake with zero egress, accessible to whichever model queries it next.
DRAM contract prices rose 98% in Q1 2026, per TrendForce, as AI data centers absorbed the memory supply that had flowed to consumer electronics.
Apple raised MacBook Pro prices $300 on June 25.
Filecoin runs on storage hardware already deployed before that shortage began.
Moving one petabyte out of a cloud costs $50,000 to $90,000 in egress fees.
Shipping that same petabyte on physical hard drives costs about $3,900 plus freight.
The cloud provider sets that fee. The hardware doesn't. Filecoin charges zero egress.
In November, CoreWeave began paying up to $1 million per customer to cover the egress fees their previous cloud charged to move their own data out.
Filecoin charges zero egress on day one. No migration fee required.
Sightline Climate tracked 12 gigawatts of announced US data center capacity for 2026.
Only 5 is under construction. Transformer lead times now stretch toward five years.
Filecoin's capacity is already live. No transformer queue.
Global electricity demand grew about 3% in 2025. Data center electricity demand grew 17% that year, according to the IEA.
Grids aren't built to absorb a gap that size.
Filecoin's network is already distributed across independent providers, not concentrated in one grid.
Under 2% of the data the world creates each year gets saved, according to IDC.
AI can use the other 98% as training fuel or retrieval context. Keeping data used to be a cost decision. Now it's a capacity decision.
Filecoin is already built for that turn.
The EU Data Act bans cloud switching fees by January 2027.
But Recital 99 excludes continuous, bi-directional data movement from the ban. Keep a workload hybrid and the egress meter stays on.
Filecoin charges zero egress whether you exit or stay multi-cloud.
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In May 2026, Google Cloud raised its peering egress rates.
For an enterprise running open-weight inference with 200TB on GCP, the monthly egress penalty jumped to $25,000-$30,000 overnight.
Filecoin pricing doesn't move when one vendor changes its terms.
UK data center grid connection requests now total roughly 50 gigawatts.
The country's entire peak national demand is only around 45 gigawatts. Some facilities face multi-year waits just to connect.
Filecoin providers deploy where power already exists. No queue required.