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Hornbein
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I made a superficial two hour investigation into this, navigating their weird terminology (Yottabyte and so forth) of which reader shall be spared and shamelessly relying on AI. I have little faith in these estimates, but this is what They are saying.
Data storage
Archival storage costs much less than ready access "hot" storage.
AI storage requires higher speed so yet more.
Data storage
| Bytes | Cost/year | Revenue/year | |
| World Total | 2.0*10^23 | $200 billion | $500 billion |
| AI Total | 1.5*10^22 | $45 billion | $180 billion |
| YouTube | 1.5*10^19 | $2 to $5 billion | $60 billion |
| Consumer | 1.0*10^11 | $12 | $0 |
Archival storage costs much less than ready access "hot" storage.
AI storage requires higher speed so yet more.