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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
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tldr
If the internet is 175 x 1024^7 bytes, that’s 960,947 grams’ worth of DNA. That’s the same as 10.6 American males. Or one third of a Cybertruck. Or 64,000 strawberries.
Anything but metric.
You literally said "960,947 grams"
That's ~961kg; 39kg short of one metric ton.
...of DNA
A byte has to be weighed against something equivalent. DNA is a fantastic constant representation of physical data.