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- 3 Cost to Store All US Phonecalls Made in a Year in Cloud Storage so it could be Datamined
- 4 estimates by Brewster Kahle June 12, 2013, done to check feasibility of news reports of NSA survaillance
- 5 corrections welcome: brewster@archive.org
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- 7 number of call-minutes per person per month 300 minutes (estimate from my family's usage)
- 8 sides in a phonecall (caller+receiver) 2 since most calls are domestic, only need to record a call once for each reciever/caller pair
- 9 number of people in the US 315,000,000 https://www.census.gov/
- 10 number of bytes/sec in a phonecall 8,000 this is the uncompressed number, could be compressed to 1/2 to 1/4 easily
- 11 cost of a Petabyte (PB) of "cloud" storage $100,000 this is basically what the Internet Archive pays. Petabyte = 1,000 terabytes
- 12 Square feet of datacenter space per petabyte 16 2 feet wide by about 8 feet including corridor between racks
- 13 Power to run a PB 5 kilowatts
- 14 Cost per KWhr $0.15 California costs (higher than much of the country, could be 1/2 in other places)
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- 18 number of bytes/min in a phonecall 480,000 calculated from above
- 19 number of bytes/month for a person 144,000,000 calculated from above
- 20 number of bytes/month for the US 22,680,000,000,000,000 calculated (divided by 2 because there is a caller and reciever, donβt need to double count)
- 21 number of PB/month for the US 23 calculated
- 22 number of PB/year for the US 272 calculated
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- 24 Cost to store all phonecalls made in a year in the "cloud" $27,216,000
- 25 Square feet to store all phonecalls 4,355
- 26 Cost of datacenter power for all phonecalls for a year $1,788,091
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