Don’t tell me “the cloud”. Why does the cloud not get full? Will the internet ever not have enough space?
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I work in manufacturing. Along with the answers above, companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are spending BILLIONS of dollars on massive Data Center warehouses. These places are huge. We usually land about #6 or #7 in terms of production vs our competitors for our products and we supply enough for 5-6 of these buildings per year. Our competitors are also supplying those products for 5-10 each per year, or more, as well. If I had to guess, there are 60-70 of these massive Data Centers going up every year, filled to the brim with networking and data storage hardware. Imagine how much storage you could fit in a 750,000 square foot warehouse. Then multiply that times 60 or 70. Increasing every year, with a projected growth of 30% over the next 10 years.
A bit of this space is used for their own networking and storage infrastructure, but a ton is leased out as cloud storage as well. Basically the internet lives in these buildings, completely decentralized, in the cloud. And it’s getting bigger all the time.
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