Same thing -- I know I came across that at some point in the past few years, and it seemed reasonable enough given exponential growth that I just accepted it as true without researching it further.

Turns out it's one of those totally wrong "factoids" that nevertheless keeps getting repeated (like the only man-made structure you can see from space being the Great Wall, etc.), and which dates as far back as the 1970's according to Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-l...