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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Storage is cheap. There is massive infrastructure to build storage devices, house them, and connect them in truly gigantic numbers. And growing more and more sites and locations and such that do this every day. Things are working as planned.
And also compression. We’re gradually improving ways to make data smaller, which means we need less storage space. As a tiny example, you know mp3s? Those are super compressed. A cd album worth of music should be like 500MB -700 MB give or take. Roughly 10MB per minute. A now, fairly ancient file format, mp3 does high quality audio in 1 – 1.5 MB per minute. Oh the horror days of downloading like a 10 second wave audio file on a 14.4K modem line. MP3s were amazing. Now expand this to all other file formats.
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