The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) tracks and forecasts global IP traffic, which will pass the zettabyte threshold by the end of 2019.
The stats in this report will make you go numb.
As I write this the numbers just got more. With all these servers in the world there has been much debate about the extremely high amounts of energy required to cool down our servers. A new proposal plans to build these massive 300 m tall Data skyscrapers to address the increasing amount of Data and traffic. These towers are to be built in Iceland and therefore the surrounding temp coupled with the enormous amount of renewable energy available make Iceland an ideal location for this sort of project.
http://architizer.com/blog/iceland-data-centers/?utm_source=architizer_newsletters&utm_campaign=d745f7feaa-Newsletter_986_20160420&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8035dcda2d-d745f7feaa-379965777
STAT TO NOTE:
"An ADEME study also reveals that a 100-person company alone produces an average of 13.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year simply from sending internal emails, which demonstrates every individual’s contribution to this endlessly growing base of data."