Data Centers Prepare for Tomorrow’s Zettabytes

JLL Real Views | March 9, 2017

Whether we're watching a live video stream of a corporate update from our desks, managing a corporate photo database while flexi-working or settling down at home to watch the latest episode of that must-see series, we're consuming more online data than ever before. By 2020, Cisco estimates that annual global internet traffic will pass the zettabyte threshold, or more than 931 billion gigabytes. By Cisco's math, that is the gigabyte equivalent of every movie ever made crossing the global internet every two minutes, or 58 million DVDs per hour. For consumers, that means an estimated 9.6 billion fixed residential devices and connections, i...