Thanks to Data Center Knowledge for picking up this science geeky piece of news–turns out that the SNAFU-prone CERN Large Hadron Collider is quite the data beast. The detectors built into the giant science experiment are coughing out gigabytes of data every second. One detector has 100 million readout channels. The below video is a mind blowing journey into the data center that is powering this experiment. As someone points out in the comments field, despite the multi-petabytes of data being generated there, the collider experiment all really comes down to one bit of data. That is, the Higgs boson that the gigantic experiment is designed to produce.
Of course, some of us are still wondering if our grandchildren are trying to stop us discovering it.
Meanwhile, enjoy this video.
