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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We keep adding space. So far, increases in the efficiency of computer memory have kept pace with the increasing demand for memory in such a way that this has been relatively painless. You could theoretically strain the internet if you started doing wasteful things like storing every frame of every video as an uncompressed bitmap, but we’ve also been good at accepting whatever amount of compression and definition loss is necessary to make the media stored on the internet practical, and the aforementioned improvements in memory efficiency have only increased these standards over time.
In purely physical terms, we never have to run out of digital storage space. Most of the materials are cheap and abundant, and server farms take up way less space than food farms. If we ever invented a medium that was super data-intensive (maybe some sort of recording of literal human memory?), there could be economic pressures to use it less because it takes up so much space.
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