noun
- A unit of digital information equal to one quintillion bytes, or 10^18 bytes; often abbreviated as EB.
Usage: computing; technical
Examples
- Modern data centers store petabytes and exabytes of information.
- The global datasphere is expected to reach several zettabytes, which is 1,000 exabytes.
- Cloud storage providers manage exabytes of user data across multiple servers.
- An exabyte is one million times larger than a terabyte.
- Scientists estimate that the internet contains multiple exabytes of content.