Birmingham: Experts have warned that rapidly growing digital data could push the world into a data storage crisis, with consumer data expected to grow by 300 percent by 2025 and the cloud does not have the required capacity to store this amount.

The warning has been issued by researchers at Aston University in the UK, who are trying to develop a method for data that does not include any more servers because these servers use 1.5 percent of the world's annual electricity generation.


To tackle this problem, the team of researchers is developing a new technology to introduce surfaces that consist of channels with a width of less than five nanometers.

Dr Matt Derry, who led the project, said in a statement that building new data centers without improving data storage technology is not a workable solution, the risks of data storage crisis are increasing and the world is demanding issues that lead to better data storage solutions.

The world is currently living in a digital lifestyle that creates a large amount of data. According to a report by the International Data Corporation, in 2019, the volume of global data was 45 zettabytes (one zetabyte is equal to 10 trillion gigabytes), but by 2025 it will increase to 175 zetabytes.


The report further said that if you store this data in DVDs, then you will have such a large number of single-layer Blu-ray discs that you will be able to travel to the moon 23 times or make them revolve around the Earth 222 times.