Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023, up 36% over the prior year in the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption, according to an industry survey released on Tuesday.
Survey: https://api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-Annual-Survey-1.pdf
Why does the headline & story use megabytes for this? Especially in a report about 2023.
That’s the measurements survey used. Survey: https://api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-Annual-Survey-1.pdf
Added to the body post.
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Megabytes are absolutely the wrong unit for this amount of data.
We live in a world where finding out what an exabyte is takes all of 3 seconds. You really want to argue the standard for communication of information should be based on the most ignorant and unmotivated people?
100EB that’s the one after PB, good to know that the government can store it all as ZFS supports files that large
Can I have that in football fields worth of Bill Gates’s paper stacks? Pic for context
About 14 football fields, stacked up to the crossbar.
according to GPT-4o-mini that I haven’t double-checked, which means it’s likely wrong somewhere.
Summary of Paper Volume and Football Fields
Data Capacity of a Letter-Sized Page
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
- Average Text Capacity:
- Approximately 500 to 600 words
- About 2,500 to 3,000 characters
- Roughly 2,500 to 3,000 bytes (using standard ASCII/UTF-8)
Total Pages for 100 Exabytes
- 100 Exabytes = 10^20 bytes
- Average Bytes per Page: 2,750 bytes
- Total Pages: Approximately 36.4 trillion pages
Volume of the Paper
- Volume of One Page:
- Volume = 8.5 inches x 11 inches x 0.004 inches ≈ 0.000374 cubic inches
- Total Volume for 36.4 Trillion Pages:
- Total volume ≈ 7.89 million cubic feet
Volume of a Football Field
- Dimensions:
- Length: 120 yards (360 feet)
- Width: 53.3 yards (160 feet)
- Height: 10 feet
- Volume: Approximately 576,000 cubic feet
Football Fields Needed to Hold the Paper
- Calculation:
- Number of football fields ≈ 7,890,000 cubic feet / 576,000 cubic feet ≈ 14
- Result: Approximately 14 football
How many Danny DeVitos is that?