Meaning & use
ZB
The symbol for zettabyte, a unit of digital storage equal to one sextillion (10^21) bytes.
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Global internet traffic was projected to exceed 150 ZB per year by the middle of the decade.
One ZB is roughly a thousand times larger than one exabyte of data.
A note on using this word
ZB is used almost exclusively in technical or statistical contexts describing very large quantities of digital data, such as global internet traffic.
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