a yottabyte is a spetillion byte ...

[Phil]

IS there that much data?

Phil M1GWZ

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On 26 Jul 2013, at 16:41, Andre Kesteloot <andre.kesteloot at verizon.net> wrote:

> A 2012 article in Wired reported that NSA needs the megaplex [in Utah] partially because the Pentagon wants to expand the military global communications network to manage yottabytes of data. “A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude,” the article said. “Should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.” NSA officials told Government       Executive, however, they do not discuss such operational details.  
> http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/07/nsas-big-dig/67406/
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