In this article from February of this year, Matt Raymond of the Library of Congress took on the specious claims often thrown about by tech-vendors that use the Library of Congress as a measure of scale. This is amazing.

One more thing we can quantify or at least estimate: The folks at the Packard Campus say that when their systems are fully online, they expect to be able to digitize between 3 and 5 petabytes of content per year. (That is to say, 3,000 to 5,000 terabytes, for those who are playing at home.[…]) And even at that rate, it would still take decades to digitize the existing content.

That’s a huge, huge amount of information.