Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Singaporean super-app Grab says 40TB a day

Singapore-based mega-app Grab has revealed that it generates 40TB of data a day. All that data is clearly valuable: Grab has also announced record profits. The Southeast Asian company, which bought out Uber in Singapore and since expanded into e-commerce, payments, and financial services, did not disclose what it does with the …

[Potemkine!]

Big Brother is watching us

The best part is we pay for it!

[sreynolds]

More like...

Its more like suck that grab, of data that is, IMHO.

[Mike 137]

Well named

"Grab" - a perfect description. However we don't know how that 1.7 MB compares with the well known mega-slurpers' achievements. That would be a very interesting study.

[Sgt_Oddball]

Re: Well named

Now amended to 40TB a day which makes a big difference to the headline.

Though doesn't feel that big to me... Considering the small distie I used to work for could push around 100GB a day when price lists changed and the API got hammered about 10 years ago so 40TB for 1000x + customers/users seems quite reasonable.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well that seems an excellent reason never to use them!

[Petalium]

When there is a SPAC involved, there is something fishy going on....

[Anonymous Coward]

40TB?

I have no idea if 40TB is high, low, or average for this sort of company. But it's a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 1 Exabyte of data stored in the cloud.

I am far more concerned (or would be were I a customer) with what data they are collecting and who they are sharing it with.

But I doubt we'll ever know.

[Jimmy2Cows]

Bubble bobble

The online food delivery segment seems to be the one to watch, as it experienced 96 per cent year-on-year growth from Q1 2020 to Q1 2021.

Couldn't be anything to do with a certain pandemic spanning that growth period, could? There's a good chance that will pretty much plateau now, with spikes and dips corresponding to local lockdown/unlocking. Watch that growth mostly evaporate when things eventually return to normal (yes, "when", not "if").