nuCloud
All of the world's data, in your coffee cup.
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Since cave paintings, humans have been constantly generating data. Lots of it: your last social media post, the songs you dance to, and this very website that you’re reading have all led us into the "zettabyte era".
Welcome to the Zettabyte Era.
A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes; currently, there are 120 zettabytes of data in existence. By 2025, we’re expecting to reach 180 zettabytes. This is equivalent to sixty millions of billions of songs, or thirty-six millions of billions of photos (Duarte, 2024). Sometimes we store this data in HDDs, SSDs and tape. But where do all of these SSDs, HDDS and tapes live?
We store this data in Data Centres.
But these data centres are forecasted to take up 13% of global energy usage by 2030.
With their detrimental effects on global climate change and energy consumption, there is an urge to find a durable, compact, sustainable, and energy-efficient means for storing the world’s data.
Where do we find a solution to this mass data problem?
We look to past examples, where scientific advances are often inspired by nature.
We look to an existing solution...
Similar to scientists before, we look to an existing solution in nature.
Nature’s data storage system, DNA.
Stable to last a millenia, durable enough to store life’s information in cells.
Current DNA storage solutions are inefficient for wide-spread use.
nuCloud fills these gaps to create a new biomanufacturing platform.