915PB a day?
But, it's Goostrey, rural...
They'll have to sign a petition to get fibre broadband from BT in
UK science minister David Willetts has announced £11m of funding to help the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) process the expected deluge of data it will produce. Handling the expected 915-petabyte daily data firehose from the entire SKA radio telescope will require advances in practically every computing discipline: the data will …
Of course, they are also placing mirrors in orbit to reflect the world-wide signals back to the array. But that is a different, non-public, budget. Give the scientists some change to cover up the orders of magnitude more costly spying operation. Then, when it all gets under public scrutiny, blame the scientists for not keeping to the budget. Its a win-win for the government vs. the government.
"The largest project in the Jodrell Bank funding is £165 million for the European Spallation Source."
The announcement by David Willetts was made at Jodrell Bank, but the European Spallation Source and PLATO exoplanet spotter projects are not related to Jodrell Bank in any way. Also, much of the SKA cash will be spent elsewhere.
Perhaps the author should have read the Willetts announcement here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/great-britain-the-best-place-in-the-world-to-do-science
Good news, undoubtedly, but most of the cash will be showered on places other than Jodrell Bank.