The Growth of BIG data

 Today, I learned about the exponential growth of big data. 

A report from IBM states that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day and that number is so big that it means that 90% of all of the data that currently exists in the world was created in the last two years. 

A report from the International Data Corporation states that from 2013-2020 the global collection of data would grow from 4.4 zettabytes to 44 zettabytes and by 2025 the global collection of data would reach 163 zettabytes and around 220 zettabytes in 2026.


Some facts that I thought were interesting are: 

Since 1980, the world's capacity to store data has doubled every 40 months.    

Over 100,000 apps are created on the apple app store and the google play store every month.

Over 5 billion google search queries are made every day.  

Over 2.2 billion people actively use Facebook every month. 

Almost 300 billion emails are sent daily.

Comments

  1. Sean Paul McClintock27 May 2026 at 02:53

    Every 40 months data doubles? will we even have the storage to hold that amount?

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  2. Joseph Donnelly27 May 2026 at 02:57

    Will we run out sand (silica) before run out of new data?

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