There’s no question that big data plays a huge role in the lives of millions of people as well as countless businesses.

As each year passes, data gets bigger and more storage facilities are built to handle the influx of information and keep it accessible and safe.

Just how big has big data become? How big do data centers have to be to handle that much data? Not surprisingly, with more of the world turning to electronic forms of storage and and ever-increasing amount of data, data centers are becoming a lot more efficient at handling information and compressing it.