&quot;For example, for YouTube alone, users upload over 400 hours of video every minute, which at one gigabyte per hour requires more than one petabyte (1M GB) of new storage every day or about 100x the Library of Congress. As shown in the graph, this continues to grow exponentially, with a 10x increase every five years.&quot;<p>This blew my mind. What does this even mean in terms of logistics. How many people do you need to have just to add all those hard drives? How many new datacenters do you need to build every 5 years?