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dyauspitrtoday at 3:31 PM1 replyview on HN

It depends. At the rough 2 PB of new data they get a day that’s about 10 sq ft of physical rack space per day. Each data center is like 500,000 sq feet so each data center can hold 120 years of YouTube uploads. They’re not going to have to restrict uploads anytime soon.


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semitonestoday at 4:17 PM

Not all of the square footage of a data center is usable for racks