Before you freak out like CNN wants you to, “a trillion bytes” is literally just a terabyte...
So dramatic @CNNhttps://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/996858348501905409 …
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I don't think you are understanding how much a terabyte can actually hold. For pure text we are talking the complete contents of the library of congress. But maybe 500 hours of high definition video is easier to wrap your head around.
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