Here at the home front we like ourselves some data. We especially like it when its visualized like this.

Take a look and read about it below.

zettabytes

Got all that? That Americans are a portly people we already knew. That they consume so many tasty morsels of data, not so much.

Via Fast Company:

According to a new study by the University of California, San Diego, from 1980 through 2008 the total number of bytes bitten by Americans has upped by 6% per year and now stands at an incredibly huge sounding 3.6 zettabytes…

…Here we break down what 3.6 zettabytes–or 34 gigabytes a day–means in terms of daily consumption.

Artwork by Robert Vargas.