From its humble beginnings as a lowly search engine project in the '90s, Google has grown into a household name and a multinational brand with a large user base. According to Statista, there were over 260 million U.S.-based visitors to Google sites in July 2022 alone.

With such a large user base, it stands to reason that the company's data banks will also be enormous. So, how much data is Google storing in its data banks, and what are the chances that it will run out of storage space at some point?

How Much Data Is Google Storing in Its Data Banks?

Since the figure grows daily and Google remains pretty mum about it, the exact number is unknown. However, experts have projected that Google will likely store ten to fifteen exabytes of data on its servers worldwide. For comparison, an exabyte is a million terabytes, and a terabyte is a thousand gigabytes.

Some technologists have estimated that all the words spoken by human beings since inception would equal just five exabytes. Google potentially has more data stored in its banks than all the words humans have spoken.

Why does Google require so much storage space? To store the massive amount of data Google has on its hands. This includes current and historical map data, device backups, cached pages, Gmail, YouTube, search data, advertising data and media, and data from Google Play Store, Google Drive, Google Books, and so much more.

That figure becomes more feasible when you consider that Google offers 15GB of space to every free Gmail account user. Given these numbers, Google theoretically has enough space for every user to store their entire digital life on its servers and still have room for some cat videos.

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