Electric vehicles registered in the USGlobal data created per year
American EV registrations and the world's annual data output, both climbing past previous benchmarks. The car is generating data; the data centre is, somewhere, charging the car. The graph is, again, allowed to mean what it says.
US registered EVs grew from about 540,000 in 2015 to over 3.5 million by 2023 as Tesla volume launches and the second wave of EV models expanded the category. Global data creation grew from about 16 to over 120 zettabytes annually in the same window, driven by video, IoT, and the always-on cloud. Both lines are creatures of the same digitalisation-and-electrification decade: cars became compute platforms with massive sensor outputs, and the cloud expanded to absorb the data. Different infrastructure, same era of conversion.
Two electrified flows in the same decade. The car and the cloud both started keeping records.
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