# Data is doubling every two years but the cloud isn't keeping up

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-06-15
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** S1E2 - Greg Osuri (CryptoChange.News)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:51 — https://archive.org/details/CryptoEp2GregOsuri
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-06-15-data-is-doubling-every-two-years-but-the-cloud-isn-eebq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Data is doubling every two years but the cloud isn't keeping up," S1E2 - Greg Osuri (CryptoChange.News), 15 Jun 2018, 00:04:51. https://archive.org/details/CryptoEp2GregOsuri

## Quote — verbatim

> What's happening today is the price is increasing because the amount of data we are processing is doubling every two years... by 2020, we'll have 44 trillion gigabytes or something like that... that's more than the stars in the known universe... But the cloud is not catching up. The infrastructure side of things are not catching up. And increasingly, the entire industry is becoming an oligopoly controlled by three major companies.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering why cheap compute is his mission; the 44-zettabyte-by-2020 figure comes from IDC's data-growth forecasts of the era.