[pso]

I think you miscalculated. I get 10MB per trip on average, assuming 10bn total trips. Maybe deduct something for maps and inefficient file formats & data structures?

1 billion bytes = 1GB,

1 billion KB = 1TB,

1 billion MB = 1PB,

10 billion * 10MB = 100PB.

[Invictus0]

Yes, you're right. My calculation was 2^50 bytes in a PB / 10^10 trips, which should have been multiplied by 100 to get 100PB.

Which again leaves me wondering why Uber needs 100PB.

[buremba]

They collect user location during the trip, app launches and every possible user action that may be useful for them while you're using the app.

[ddalex]

Tinfoil hat: data that they slurp outside trips, like tracking user locations, etc

[efrank02]

I do forecasting at Uber, we don’t collect data outside of trips.

[cr3ative]

Has this kind of thing stopped, then? https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/28/uber-background-location-d...

[kk58]

What kind of problems do you work on?

[compcoffee]

>we don’t collect data outside of trips.

And it's not like Big Tech has ever misled people on this subject.