1. A unit of digital information equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1,000 terabytes (often abbreviated as PB).
Usage: Computing and data storage terminology; Plural form of petabyte

Examples

• Modern data centers store hundreds of petabytes of information.
• The company's cloud infrastructure can handle multiple petabytes of user data.
• Scientists working with genomic data often deal with petabytes of research files.
• Streaming services require petabytes of storage for their video libraries.
• The organization upgraded its servers to manage petabytes of daily transactions.