Measuring the Growth of Cloud Computing
Check out this cool video from AMD about how cloud computing is managing the information explosion.
1.8 billion Internet users worldwide. 10 billion Google searches a month. What does it all mean for the cloud? It changes the demands of information technology.
Below you’ll find attribution for those stats, as these are not AMD’s claims.
- There are an estimated 1.8 billion Internet users worldwide… close to 400% increase since 2000 (source)
- Over 10 billion Google searches in the United States… in March 2010 alone (source)
- A typical Google search consumes about .3 watt-hours of energy (source)
- An estimated 3 billion watt-hours are consumed in the US per month on Google searches. You could power a 60 watt light bulb for more than 5,000 years on that energy alone (math: 60 watt light bulb consumes 60 watts per hour. 3 billion/60 = 50 million hours. 50 million hours/24 hours in a day = 2.08 million days. 2.08 million days/365 days in a year = 5,707 years)
- More than 20 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded… every minute (source)
- Over 200 billion emails are sent… every day (source)
- More than 340,000 books have been published in 2010… but over 400,000 blogs were posted on May 4 alone (source)
- In 2005, mankind created 150 exabytes of data… this year it is estimated we will create 1,200 exabytes (source)
- One exabyte can hold the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress… 100,000 times over (source; math: 10 terabytes could hold the entire printed collection. 1 exabyte = 1 million terabytes)
- In 2020 we expect to create 35 Zettabytes of data, or 35,000 exabytes. A Zettabyte is 1 TRILLION gigabytes (source)
- Microsoft and Amazon are estimated to operate over 50,000 servers (source)
- Google operates over 1 million servers, approximately 2% of the world’s servers (source)
- A typical data center facility spends almost half of its energy consumption on the systems powering and cooling the computers inside, and not on the computers themselves (source)
- By 2012, customers are expected to spend $42 billion on cloud computing (source)
- “By 2020, a significant portion of the Digital Universe will be centrally hosted, managed, or stored in public or private repositories that today we call ‘cloud services.’ And even if a byte in the Digital Universe does not ‘live in the cloud’ permanently, it will, all likelihood, pass through the cloud at some point in its life.” – IDC (source)
- Facebook operates over 30,000 servers (source)
