This week Google announced that the company will be joining CERN openlab, a partnership that will lay the foundation of future research in cloud computing, machine learning, and quantum computing. The biggest scientific laboratory also produces the largest amount of data. Over the next couple years as the LHC evolves, the "computing capacity required would be around 50-100 times higher than today," which means data storage needs will be up to an order of magnitude more -- of exabytes -- an amount that Google enthusiastically stepped up to the plate to manage.
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