#grumpy-cat

IBM says that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day, as I found out to the detriment of my free time today.

IBM say 2.5 quintillion (seventeen zeros) new bytes of data are being created every day. No wonder no-one knows anything.

— Richard Sambrook (@sambrook) January 4, 2013

If you're at all interested in how that breaks down, it's equivalent to

1.78 billion copies of The Hunger Games in HD

3.3 bilion CDs

6.8 billion episodes of Breaking Bad

11 billion copies of The Beatles' White Album

37.4 billion copies of The Dark Night Returns

107 billion Gangnam Styles

8.35 trillion Grumpy Cats 2.5 quintillion looks like this: 2,500,000,000,000,000,000, and in my calculations I've used the US trillion.

I've taken a slight liberty with that statement, imagining that "created" means "uploaded to the Internet", and made an infographic out of it. You can 

just say... no