“It’s quite scary,” physicist and information theorist, Melvin Vopson, replied to me when I asked him what he thought about the current growth of data. Data growth is out of control and leaping ahead at an annual rate of more than 25%. Based on my calculations, if we continue this growth rate, by 2053 we will be mining a Mount Everest worth of materials (175 billion tons) every year just to build the servers to store all this data on.
https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-growth-is-scary-and-unsustainable/
These calculations have been made in many areas and what has happened has simply been the introduction of new technologies which significantly reduced the resources needed.
Furthermore, data storing is something on which it is not difficult to imagine new technological solutions for the next 30 years.
