A recent flood in Thailand has closed over 1,000 factories. Some of these factories make hard drives. The government has warned that waters could continue to rise until the end of the year. When the rains do finally stop, it is estimated that factories could take months to clean up computer equipment damaged by floods and to restart production.
This means a shortage of hard drives around the world. Analysts think that over the next six months there will be 50 million fewer hard drives. All of this is going to have a big impact on the internet and companies that provide cloud computing services. This includes, Amazon,Google, Microsoft and Facebook etc.