Data, Delicious Data I see you Warner Bros. From Popular Science:
Where will the NSA house its secret yottabytes?
We always knew that the National Security Agency collects a lot of surveillance data from satellites and by other means, but we never quite imagined it was this much: the NSA estimates it will have enough data by 2015 to fill a million datacenters spread across the equivalent combined area of Delaware and Rhode Island. The NSA wants to store yottabytes of data, and one yottabyte comes to 1,000,000,000,000,000 GB.
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My Comment: Learning this news creates more questions than answers .... and right now I have megaloads of questions to ask.
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