 LinklistPremium
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kudos:5 | NSA building HUGE data center in Utah »www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0···er/all/1
It is big enough so that they needed to start using a new term for how much data it will store - yottabytes.
It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. And the data flow shows no sign of slowing. In 2011 more than 2 billion of the world’s 6.9 billion people were connected to the Internet. By 2015, market research firm IDC estimates, there will be 2.7 billion users. Thus, the NSA’s need for a 1-million-square-foot data storehouse. Should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.
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openbox9Premium
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kudos:2 | said by Linklist:It is big enough so that they needed to start using a new term for how much data it will store - yottabytes. It's not a new term, it just hasn't been used much yet.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte |
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 camaro92Question everythingPremium
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And don't forget your medical records, plenty of space for that(HIPPA is useless to protect you, having a wife that is a nurse you get a pretty good idea how it works) and pretty much anything they want without that thing called the judicial system getting in there way. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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They need that much storage to track ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING everyone does on the internet.
I mean, this type of stuff is proof that they really do have all the traffic passing right through their servers.
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