How much does the "Spring Law" really cost?

    I very carefully filter news noise in fb, but even there, a wave of topics with the law of Spring is noticeable. I will leave the law itself aside, politics is politics, there is a triple bottom, but for the sums of money I’ll say, after all, I was the very deputy director who would have to solve such a problem with his own head.


    Is trillion worth of data storage actually?


    Let's count.


    I did the calculation quickly in one comment on fb a couple of weeks ago, it does not take into account the cost of placing equipment in the data center, for this and other unforeseen circumstances, you can throw another 10-15% from above, but not more.


    Spoiler:

    no trillions are needed for such a task, about 200 billion rubles are enough


    Given : required to store calls, sms, chats and logs of the Internet and mail. Half a year.


    It is necessary : to calculate what pieces of iron are needed for this and how much they can cost.


    Solution :


    We determine the specific volume of voice storage . An hour of voice squeezes to about 10 MB; 24 hours = 240; 365 * 0.24 GB = 87.6 GB per user. Let him say 25% per year (that's a lot), then 21.9 GB per year. Store for six months, which means 11 GB per person.


    We expertly determine the weight of text entries . All the logs of the Internet and SMS / messengers are text that weighs hundreds of kilobytes and cannot be produced in megabytes per day, it is unrealistic to type physically if you do not have thousands of monkeys with typewriters.


    For fidelity, we add six months of mail correspondence. Of course, we will enable deduplication for 140 million people (we’ll leave only one attachment, and we will delete its copies in other boxes and replace it with a link to the original). And here (by experience) will be added - well, another 100 MB of content per year, it will really be 10-20. Well, people don’t write a lot in the mail, this is usually a long chat in the form of a beard RE: RE: RE: RE ...


    Ok, 20 MB for mail, another 20 MB for chat rooms and browser logs. Total 40 Mb.


    Together with the voice - the same 11 GB (10,240 MB, there +40 MB of instant messengers are invisible).


    Further, the infrastructure . Conventionally, six months of storing all the information on one citizen for the local Palantir will cost (drum roll) $ 3, including:


    • $ 0.9 / GB - the cost of storing data on disks;
    • $ 2 - infrastructure (hardware, software, implementation) and support.
    • these $ 2 are calculated as "implemented and depreciate for five years"

    How much active base does OPSOS have there? 120 million? Probably half alive.
    Well, even if there are really more Internet users, approx.
    90 million people. 990 million GB of storage for $ 3.


    TOTAL :
    In .. $ 2.97 billion, or 185 billion rubles will manage the creation of infrastructure. These costs should be divided into all telecom operators to record the activities of residents of the whole country.


    And it, this infrastructure, plus or minus, is already 70% built now - all telecom operators have data centers, mega-data centers, backup data centers. They even rent them out, because those are underloaded with voice traffic and logs.


    So they lie about trillions.


    Do not believe it.


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