[RangerScience]

Holy crap. And yes, it definitely is; if you haven't looked up Industry 4.0 or Industrial Internet, that entire sector is making a push to sensorize.

As a rearguard defense: Yes, but, what percent of the time is CERN running an experiment [that generates that data]?

According to a quick Google search, average time spent driving is 101 minutes / day.

Totally makes sense that CERN (and, likely, any large Science! efforts) produces that level of burst data, but wouldn't these cars produce more data over time?

As a different topic, a different friend of mine is of the opinion that AI is dependent on the throughput of data through the system; think about the amount of information your body feeds to your brain, and how much time it was doing that before you were capable of communication.