500 hours of YouTube are uploaded every minute
25 BILLION texts are sent every day
Globally, people average 4 hours and 47 minutes on screens per day
Kenyans spend 9 hours a day on their screens
People watch 2 BILLION hours of YouTube videos every day
Netflix is watched 191 BILLION hours per year
Live streaming happens 100 million hours a day
Mail Volume in the U.S. has dropped from 213 Billion pieces a year to 108 Billion over the last twenty years
Print newspaper daily circulation was 56 million in 2000. In 2022, it was 21 million.
Zoom has 300 million daily users
Google Meet has 300 million monthly users
There are approximately 300 million equity trades daily worldwide
U.S. equity makers typically see 15-20 Billion shares change hands every day
There are, on average, 250 million bets placed per day online
McKinsey puts the global payments at $2 QUADRILLION a year or about $5-6 trillion per day
India has 660 million online payments per day
All this data, data, data feels more like…
Kind of boring?
Back to the Future was made in 1985 about 1955.
Here’s the Johnny B. Goode scene which ends with telling the audience that the future belongs to our kids.
We need to make sure the future works for them so they can love it.
(grandkids, too!)
And according to Capital One, “on an average day, Amazon customers place 15.25 million orders “ and the “average Amazon delivery driver makes 180 stops and delivers 275 packages per shift.” All of this is managed and monitored by computers.
Even the Postal Service is now tracking digitally many pieces and providing or making available updates via email or phone.
I’m concluding all of the live streaming, online news, electronic ordering, delivery tracking, financial transactions, etc. in the 16 stunning data points plus the other ones all contribute to the need for data centers, and a growing need.