[Hetuck]

Excellent article -- well worth a read or re-read. 1000 exabytes per year, the worldwide data volume projected in 2015, corresponds to a rate of data creation of about 30 Terabytes per second, or about 240,000 Gigabits per second. Assuming the Center is designed to store most or all of this data, how will it be transmitted for collection? I presume it's via buried fiber optic cable, as I don't see any satellite dishes in the images of the Center.

[Nowhere Man]

Excellent article -- well worth a read or re-read. 1000 exabytes per year, the worldwide data volume projected in 2015, corresponds to a rate of data creation of about 30 Terabytes per second, or about 240,000 Gigabits per second. Assuming the Center is designed to store most or all of this data, how will it be transmitted for collection? I presume it's via buried fiber optic cable, as I don't see any satellite dishes in the images of the Center.

Dang, that's so much info, they will have to keep adding servers, hard discs, tape drives all the time. I hate to see all the reels of tape they would need. At some point, it will be too much and it will fall apart like the "Tower of Babel."

[palmer]

I presume it's via buried fiber optic cable, as I don't see any satellite dishes in the images of the Center.

The highest data rate for fiber according to wikipedia is 1.5 petabytes/sec The highest data rate from satellite, also according to wikipedia, is 8 gigabytes/sec about 100,000 times slower. If anything, that gap will increase with time.