How many terabytes of data are generated every second globally?

Background

Around 1.7 million terabytes of new data are created worldwide every second. That includes photos, videos, emails, sensor data, and chats. In one hour, it is enough to store every book in the world a hundred times over. About 90 percent of all human data was made in the last few years. Most of it will never be looked at again.

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