Processor architecture

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While HDDs evolve and offer more and more space on less room, why are we "sticking with" 32-bit or 64-bit?

Why can't there be a e.g.: 128-bit processor?

(This is not my homework; I'm just a student interested beyond the things they teach us in informatics)

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