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I found an article that claims a new technology could allow 10TB/in^2. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121010083826.ht...

With that, it would only require 1.639*10^6 cubic meters.

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Key word there being "only". Still a pretty damn large and expensive facility. The fact that they most likely will have some sort of redundancy notwithstanding.

For reference, wolframalhpa says that is approx. equivalent to 3.3x the volume this can carry (in oil): http://i.imgur.com/jSzgKAB.jpg http://i.imgur.com/dVXdESI.jpg So, roughly four of those.

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