How does the internet not get full?

Question

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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Answer 1

As long as we keep building hard drive, we can keep adding more data to the internet. Hard drives are getting more dense (smaller yet holding more data) and cheaper all the time, so we can keep adding more storage capacity all the time. Some comes from building more, larger data centers but also by being able to squeeze more data into the same space over time.