With (millions? billions?) of humans creating content (and metadata?) every day, how does the data storage keep up? Are they adding additional storage every day?
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There is an enormous amount of infrastructure behind the internet, its just not something most people see. I work at a data center and literally half of all power in my city’s metro area goes to my data center campus.
My company has about 25-30 EXAbytes of storage capacity right now. 1000 gigs=1 terabyte, 1000 terabytes=1 Peta byte. 1000 Petabytes=1 exa byte. That is a incomprehensible amount of storage. We’re looking to 10x that within the decade and are building new campuses left and right, to the extent that were worried about how we’regoing to power it all. And that’s just one company.
That being said, companies actually are struggling with it. A lot of places have just recently discovered the value of Metadata, and have started storing literally every piece of information about you that they can. That takes up a lot of space, so the data center industry is exploding. And that’s without even getting into the AI topic.
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