Data clouds are blooming with every passing second to accord to the ever-increasing demands of the consumers around the world. As scarcity determines value, data is gradually evolving as the wealth of millennial. Countries and brands are locking horns on the issues like data storage norms, etc. Taking stock of the green data production and storage demands, Dr. Melvin Vopson has put up some prognosis to reflect on the data catastrophe.

Working at the University of Portsmouth (U.K.) as a senior lecturer, Dr. Melvin Vopson has taken out a study dealing with the future of digital age and our planet at great length. Taking into consideration the current data densities, the lecturer has estimated the growth rate of digital bits at 50%. Keeping the growth to that mark in the future times, he has ended up projecting the content of digital bits to rise to half of Earth’s mass by 2245.

Not just that, the data bits would also surpass the growth of atoms on the planet. At 50%, the digital bits will equal the number of atoms on Earth in 150 years.

The upkeep of the data business would suck the power production on the planet. According to the study, after 130 years, the power required to support the data issues would equal the power production of current times.

Also, he has promulgated that there would be 1 kg of digital bits on the planet stored around the planet on all kinds of data storage facilities.

Dr. MelSvin has brought out the baleful “information catastrophe” lurking around into the limelight. Not just that, he has also gone ahead to widen the platter of crisis like climate change, environment, population, food, health, energy and security, by including it.

Shedding light on the points of study, he shared, “Assuming the current growth trends in digital content continue, the world will reach a singularity point in terms of the maximum digital information possibly created and the power needs to sustain it, called the information catastrophe”.

Taking on the approaching power disaster, he said, “At the same time, the digital information production alone will consume most of the planetary power capacity”.

Throwing up the significant figures and estimates about the results of the study, he said, “In the extreme case scenario when our digital information production growth is sustained at 50% per year, by the year 2070, we will have 1 kg of digital bits content on the planet stored on all the traditional and cloud data storage centers and endpoints such as PCs, smart-phones, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices”.

Adding to that, he shared, “Similarly, at 50% growth per year, by the year 2245, half of the planet’s mass will be made up of digital bits”.

Thus, the senior lecturer has pulled the curtains up to present the whirls of crisis thriving around the world. Not just that, a global data war in future times is also not a remote possibility.

There is a lot of brewing to rankle up the souls neglecting the caveat bells chiming around.

Hopefully, think tanks would grab the estimates and projections in spirits.

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