Growth Live In Terabytes
(70 per second):
Size Of The Internet
In Petabytes:
How big is the Internet?
The exact size of the Internet is
very difficult to determine. For
this a Live Counter released
figures large IT sites were used.
Based on the speed with which
the Internet in recent years grew
an extrapolation for the coming
years has been created. Thus
the size of the Internet in 2012
was calculated to be 2800
Zettabytes or 2.8 exabytes.
This number of exabytes are 2.8
billion terabytes. To store this
amount of data you would need
700 million 4TB hard drives.
In 2013 the amount of
information on the Internet was
3.7 Zettabyte. In 2016 the amount
of data passing through the
Internet
grew to about 26,500 gigabytes
per second.
A growth of traffic is forecast by
20% annually, on the basis also
of the Live-based Counter below.
One reason for this is that more
and more people have access to
the Internet. See:
live-counter.com/internet-users-
worldwide/
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It is doubling in size every two years
How much data does the internet contain?
The size of the Internet doubles about every 2 years.
For the beginning of 2016, the Counter expect around 7.7
Zettabyte on to data that is distributed worldwide Internet servers
are.
In the year 2020, the amount of data is expected to enlarge to 40
zettabytes.
It is estimated that by then 50 billion devices will be connected to
the Internet.
1 Gigabyte:
An author takes 50 years
for every week a book with
about 190 pages, more
specifically, with 383,561
characters (with spaces
and sentence included)
write. This would be a
billion letters or bytes.
1 Terabyte:
A trillion letters. If they
were written down at a
distance of one millimeter
it would give the text
length one million
kilometers. 25 times
around the globe!
1 Petabyte:
The floppy was the
storage medium of the
legendary Commodore 64
in the 1980s.
This disk for this home
computer holds 174,848
Bytes leaves to be
described on two pages.
If you want 1 Petabyte
storage you could obtain
this by copying old C64
floppy on this, so you'd
have more than 90 years 2
disk change to perform the
over 2.8 billion diskettes
per second copy.
This would have a weight
of 36,889 tons!
Every 14 seconds, the
Internet increases by this
amount of data!
1 Exabyte:
212 million DVDs weighing
3,404 tons.
1 Zettabyte:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000.
000 bytes or characters.
Printed on graph paper
(with one in letter in each
mm2 square) would be a
paper measuring a billion
km.
The entire surface of the
earth (510 million km²)
would be covered by a
layer of paper almost
twice.
1 Yottabyte:
The size of the Internet in
2030, if the current growth
factor of 40% is
maintained annually.
With this amount of data
one could hold the lives of
all of the people on Earth
from the time of her birth
until her death on video.
A Yottabyte is
8,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000 bits.
The same number of water
molecules would yield
only 240 grams of water.
A small glassful!
See:
water-drops-atoms
Worldwide Internet Traffic
In Gigabyte Per Second:
The Deep Web
A large part of the Internet is
hidden, that is, not easily visible
to everyone.
These include, for example, the
server log files, which each
monitor access to the site.
Likewise, the "cloud".
Entrepreneurs as individuals
save more data in it. Although
these are "the Internet",’
but available only with login
information.
How Many Servers Are Added Every Day?
The True Size of the Internet:
The internet has become an integral part of our lives. We rely on it to communicate, to shop, to
access information and to stay connected. But have you ever wondered just how big the
internet really is? The answer is: it's hard to tell.
The sheer size of the internet is staggering. It is estimated that there are more than 20 billion
devices connected to the internet, with more than 4 billion people using it worldwide. It is
estimated that over 5 trillion gigabytes of data is transferred over the internet every day. In
order to put this into perspective, it would take over 5 million years to watch all the movies ever
made.
But how many servers does it take to support this massive network? Unfortunately, there is no
one answer to this question. The true size of the internet is impossible to measure, as servers
are added and removed all the time. While some estimates put the number of servers at over 1
million worldwide, this number is constantly shifting.
The complexity of the internet and the fact that servers can be added and removed at any time
makes it difficult to come up with an accurate count of the number of servers added each day.
Estimates vary, but most experts agree that the number is likely in the tens of thousands, with
many of these servers being added in countries with developing economies.
The true size of the internet is impossible to measure, but one thing is certain: it's growing at an
exponential rate. As new technologies are developed, more and more people are connected to
the internet. This means more data is being transferred, more services are being offered, and
more servers are being added to support this ever-expanding network. So while we may not
know the exact number of servers added every day, what we do know is that the internet is
ever-growing and ever-evolving.
How Much Electricity Does the Internet Use?
The internet has become an indispensable part of our lives. We rely on it for entertainment,
work, communication, and more. But how much electricity does the internet actually consume?
Recent studies have shown that the electricity used by the internet is estimated to be around
645 Terawatt-hours (TWh) per year. This is equivalent to the total electricity used by Germany in
a year. Even more startling, the internet is estimated to use 4% of the total electricity consumed
in the world. This amount is predicted to increase as more people gain access to the internet
and digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers become more common.
It is important to note that the electricity used by the internet does not just come from powering
the servers, but also from the infrastructure that supports it. This includes things such as the
energy used to power the routers, switches, and cables that are needed to transmit data.
So what can we do to reduce the amount of electricity used by the internet? One option is to
use more energy efficient devices when accessing the internet. This could include laptops or
tablets that have higher energy efficiency ratings or using power-saving modes on your
devices. Additionally, you can reduce the amount of data transferred over the internet by
compressing files before sending them.
Finally, it is important to keep in mind that the internet is not only a source of entertainment and
information, but also a powerful tool for connecting people, businesses, and governments. By
using the internet responsibly, we can help reduce its energy consumption and make sure that
it remains a vital part of our lives.
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