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“The internet's most fascinating datasets reveal how humanity creates, moves, and hoards information at incomprehensible scale.”
What humanity does online in a single minute; the raw throughput of civilization.
The handful of destinations that absorb the majority of global web traffic.
Global data created and replicated per year; one of the steepest curves in history.
Median fixed broadband download speeds; the physical-layer divide.
Public archives now span 150,616 TB across 54,532 NASA datasets, while new releases add biodiversity audio, planetary records, and global Earth observations that keep old and new measurements reusable.
The quiet single points of failure the whole network depends on.
The pivotal moments that built the network we live inside.
Internet growth is becoming a physical demand: data center expansion is lifting US electricity forecasts, while paid cloud services now reach 52.74% of EU enterprises.
The Tier-1 carriers, clouds, and cable consortia that physically move the bits.
The macro gauges of how much the internet is moving and how full the pipes are.
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