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how come [big web2.0 website]'s server hasn't exploded yet?
| Probably that is why the information on the Internet is not time-proof. If you want to find something of 10 years ago, it will be very difficult if it still is in some obscure corner of the Internet. Make it 15 years and it is even worse.
But then again, I might be wrong.
| Don't forget that advances in storage space are also slowing down the arrival of the "explosion". But of course you know that. Whether it is sustainable all depends on how long and how much storage and compression continue to advance. I think we have 60-100 years before it starts to be a problem. It isn't that resource heavy to build a server farm in the grand scheme of things.
| And even then, by that time we may have completely different computing paradigms: quantum or even biological. Very very hard to predict. But from a surface look at it, the amount of land on earth, the ability to produce storage hardware, and the money that tech companies make, it's hard to imagine something like building a lot of stuff stopping anything. Think of cities like New York or Tokyo. We build insane and impractical structures just to support what we're used to.
| I think advances in storage will keep up with it...although something may be lost in the process. In my case I can still find things I posted from 18 years ago with the right google search. Still, I'd like to preserve certain parts of history, but ill never have enough computing space or electricity to do it.
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| just how many electrical energy and land surface is being used up to power and store server farms filled with contents by unsuspecting internet users who think all of this are stored in some kind of virtual hammerspace? how did this happen? when will we run out?
especially with youtube, with, i quote, 65yrs of content uploaded every day. assuming 1 min of video needs at least 10MB for 5 standard resolutions. that means over 340TB a day or.. 1 server farm every 8 years ??