Giga is so 1985. Tera was a thing of the 90s. Welcome to the peta-verse. The Hadron Collider processes a petabyte of data every second. A petabyte is 10¹⁵ bytes of data, or 1,000 terabytes or 1,000,000 gigabytes. Machine learning and data science relies on the processing of large amounts of information. The more information and the faster it can be processed, the easier our job becomes. Petabytes takes us beyond the world of gigabytes, which we’ve outgrown, but there’s still more to come. Next up, exabytes, zettabytes, and yottabytes.