If your runing the event horizon telescope for instance, you needed to put the 5.5PB generated by a single month of observation on a plane to get it from Antarctica, Hawaii, and Chile to the mainland US, and their not even that big compared to the big tech cloud providers.
I believe the current text only download version of wikipedia is only 45Gb, and pictures is only another 99GB on top of that. Text and static images are cheap, you generally need raw(or lots) of video to fill a couple 30tb drives in a home environment.