How Much Physical Space Does the Internet Take Up?

The net is one of the most aeriform concept in tech : it ’s nowhere and everywhere , all at once . But if you could measure the matter , how much physical infinite would it take up ?

Fortunately Randall Munroe of XKCD fame has do the question in a fun way over on hisWhat If?site . He explains :

There are a lot of ways to approximate the amount of information store on the cyberspace , but we can put an interesting upper stick on the number just by looking at how much storage outer space we ( as a species ) have purchased .

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The warehousing diligence produces in the neighborhood of 650 million hard effort per twelvemonth . If most of them are 3.5″ drives , then that ’s eight liter ( two gallons ) of hard ride per second .

This mean the last few years of punishing drive production - which , thanks to increase size of it , represent a large chunk of global storage capability - would just about fill an oil oil tanker . So , by that measuring , the internet is modest than an rock oil tanker .

In fact , this answer is just a snipping from a series of short “ What if ? ” question answer in a single station on his site . Goread the eternal rest . [ What If ? ]

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