Another worthwhile read to understand the...

Another worthwhile read to understand the potential:

https://www.imec-int.com/en/imec-magazine/imec-magazine-september-2018/emerging-memories-for-the-zettabyte-era

The zettabyte era will also challenge the power that is consumed by the growing amount of data centers, for processing, transporting and storing all the data. If we don’t optimize the energy consumption for these operations, data centers worldwide may use almost 8000 terawatt-hours by 2030 (source: https://www.labs.hpe.com/next-next/energy). That’s about the amount of electricity consumed by Europe, Africa and part of Asia today. In recent years, several technologies have been introduced in the data centers to address power and performance issues for storage, including, for example, the wide deployment of solid state drives since 2014, and the introduction of the first emerging memory technologies in 2017. But to be prepared for the zettabyte era, we will have to introduce novel non-volatile memories with unprecedented density and speed, and improved power consumption.