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How many petabytes of data does the Large Hadron Collider produce annually?

About 30

Background

The Large Hadron Collider creates about 30 petabytes of data each year. That equals 30 million gigabytes or 6,000 packed hard drives. The particle smasher in Switzerland is 27 kilometers long. Scientists found the famous Higgs boson there in 2012.

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