The great data centre goldrush
ANALYSIS: Demand for computing power and data storage is almost creating a new asset class which is a hybrid of technology and property, the data centre. One NBR Rich Lister is among those leading the charge.
WATCH: NBR senior journalist Lachlan Colquhoun speaks with Simon Shepherd.
Shoeshine has only recently heard of a zettabyte, which is a measure of the volume of data storage.
A zettabyte, he has learned, equals one sextillion bytes, which is enough to store about 250 billion DVDs.
While Shoeshine has been doing his other work and living his life, the amount of zettabytes in
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