I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.

  • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Absolutely huge data centers.

    A full third of my towns real estate is currently covered with a sprawling Google data center. Just enormous.

        • ddtfrog@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I love driving through it when I go up to Winchester. Data center galore.

          • Null@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            I can’t fathom that amount stored there in addition to the amount of data traffic occurring. Those fibers are on fire; coming in the centers in 3 foot tubes! For some reason they don’t appear on google image search. ;)

    • blivet@kbin.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, 10 or 15 years ago I read an article about how Google brings up new storage modules when they need to expand, and their modules are essentially shipping containers full of hard drives.