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National Security data to grow to the size of 2 states by 2015

Posted Nov 15th, 2009 at 11:11 AM and seen
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Yottabyte (yot·ta·byte):

1. 1,000,000,000,000,000 gigs.

2. A smidgen of what National Security will need in data storage.

This is at least according to Popsci, which reports that several of these yottabytes are apparently enough to consume Delaware and Rhode Island with data centers—just about what National Security will need for all its surveillance data in five years. Put in other terms, that’s about 100 billion new hard drives or 2 billion new Backblaze storage pods or about 88 trillion buckaroos (slightly less than today’s GDP).

Efforts are apparently already alive in Salt Lake City, where Big Brother is supposedly building a monster data center.

Let's see, which two states do we need the least?

Perhaps you’d next like to learn all about Freedom of Information.

 Noelle Chun

Comments (1)

Nov 16, 2009
dvsdoug said...
Just because we can, doesn't mean we should! What exactly are they storing? Are they going use face recognition software on every face, on planet earth? Is the word "enough" on anyone's lips over there? Once you have the data, then you must be able to retrieve the data and make sense of it all. Just how do they intend to protect all this data from an electromagnetic bomb? These are just a few questions to get the conversation started...

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