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

There is a limit technically but we’re nowhere near it, not even close. And the thing is, as time goes on data storage gets more efficient. Today thousands of Gigabytes can be stored in devices smaller than your palm, in ten years, smaller than your fingertip