Robert Cringely is seeing an energy crisis coming, with so many companies giving GBs of free storage space.
But every one of these service providers, if they really do intend to be there when we need them with all our pictures, videos, love letters, and construction blueprints, are going to have to keep all that data available online 24/7, which is an unprecedented storage challenge, and one that the storage industry has NOT been working on.
As my Mama would say, this is a problem of having a big old back end.