How do we have so much space to store and share internet content? Wouldn’t we run out of space at some point because you can only build so many data or cloud servers?

Question

With literally billions of internet users sharing billions of bytes of data every day there must be an endpoint where the servers can no longer handle the traffic anymore. I see this all the time with websites crashing because too many users try to access the same website at once.

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Answer 1

Theoretically yes, practically not really. Old hard drives took up the space of an entire car, for only a few megabytes. Now, there’s drives the size of a fingernail with 1 terrabyte of capacity. That’s roughly 280,000 times as much storage in something that is a million times smaller.