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Re:YouTube as Storage by dyauspitr on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:31AM (#47015252)
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.
Re:YouTube as Storage by semitones on Saturday February 14, 2026 @11:17AM (#47015671)
Not all of the square footage of a data center is usable for racks