Submitted 2 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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.
Americans used just over 100
trillion megabytesexabytes of wireless data in 2023
Megabytes are absolutely the wrong unit for this amount of data.
nobody knows what an exabyte is so why would anybody use that?
You really want to argue the standard for communication information should be based on the most ignorant and unmotivated people?
How about billion Gigabytes, or million Terabytes?
Ditch exabytes, return to bytes
100EB that’s the one after PB, good to know that the government can store it all as ZFS supports files that large
Honestly the sad part is that you aren’t wrong
Can I have that in football fields worth of Bill Gates’s paper stacks? Pic for context 1000003435
He was hoarding all the toilet paper in the corona supermarket wars. New conspiracy unlocked. /s
That feels like a bad comparison. Technically paper could told a huge amount of data if you write small enough
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.
1.618x10^7 at a height of bill gates
How many Danny DeVitos is that?
In what resolution? Lossy or lossless compression?
Before or after offering us an egg in these trying times?
Not enough, I can tell you that! We need more Danny Devitos.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Why does the headline use megabytes for this? Especially in a report about 2023.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That’s the measurements the survey used. Survey: api.ctia.org/…/2024-Annual-Survey-1.pdf
Added to the body post.