A brand new study by pCloud has analysed the sheer amount of online storage we use, and using the average size of a photo, CD case, and A4 paper document, calculated the physical space needed to store the data in real life, if online storage no longer existed. pCloud then compares the stacked up storage to the height a variety of world-famous landmarks and distances, to show just how staggering it is.

In a world consumed by technology, a single person accumulates on average 500GB of data in the form of image, audio and document files which all get stored on the cloud.

☁️ How much cloud storage does a single person use?  ☁️

Photos ? = 46% (equivalent to 137,237 photos)

Documents ?= 26% (equivalent to 9,648,750 pieces of paper)

Music ? =  6% (equivalent to 6,601 songs or 943 albums)

London’s photos stacked up, would wrap around the world 2 times!

There are over 8million people living in London, so what does all that data add up to?

• London’s total data stacked up, would wrap around the world 222 times.
• London’s photos alone would make it round the world 2 times.
• London’s documents would make it to the moon and back 11 times.
• London’s music collection would make it across USA 70 times

The UK

• The data of the population of the UK would make it half way to mars!
• The UKs photos alone stacked up, would wrap around the world 15 times, and make it to the moon 1.6 times!

One person’s cloud storage is 3 times taller than the Eiffel Tower!

Despite standing at 324 metres, if one person’s documents were stacked up next to the Eiffel Tower it would be three times the height of this famous landmark, standing at 956m! An average person’s photos would stack up at 34m and their CD’s at 9M.