Seems like oil and nuclear energy are different because both can be replaced with alternative sources of energy. What are the alternative sources of user data?
Comparing growth in data storage versus energy usage per capita is interesting.
Even if you look back to the founding of the U.S., the change in energy use per person is actually only a few fold, definitely less than an order of magnitude.
Harder to compare quantity of data storage but the change would seem much larger. How much data is there, per U.S. person?
