@elonmusk: AI agentic Internet traffic will obviously VASTLY exceed human usage. Not a close call at all. Cloudflare’s forecast is…
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Elon Musk asserts that AI agentic Internet traffic will vastly exceed human usage, endorsing Cloudflare's forecast, with context on global bandwidth and Starlink capacity.
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AI agentic Internet traffic will obviously VASTLY exceed human usage. Not a close call at all.
Cloudflare’s forecast is accurate. https://t.co/Wo4FiRKjPU
Aaron Burnett (@aaronburnett): For context, Global bandwidth is somewhere between 2-8 Pbps (2,000-8,000 Tbps) depending on if your measuring fiber public backhaul (like international fiber) or all public and private connections.
100,000 V3 Starlinks equals 100 Pbps 10x-50x the total bandwidth available
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