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World’s information consumption: 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes per year

“Three scientists at UC San Diego have rigorously estimated the annual amount of business-related information processed by the world’s computer servers in terms that Guttenberg and Galileo would have appreciated: the digital equivalent of a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times a year.” via PhysOrg

Read the UCSD report here.

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