Archives in space: Humanity's cold storage Big Data backup | CIO Dive

"For the near-term, increasing data storage in space is "necessary and useful" in light of the modern space race, the evolution of the internet into space and the ability to work with Big Data and higher bandwidths of data in space.

So as a moon colony and regular trips to Mars become a reality, increased data storage will prove critical. 

But there is a more important reason the Arch Mission is working to establish a Big Data record in space: "This is a backup and recovery project for our civilization and it's solar system scale," said Spivack....

While the first launch with SpaceX was largely symbolic, the Arch Mission is working with various groups to send large amounts of open data into space, from the Wikipedia archives to Archive.org. Placing open data sets in different locations in space will create redundancy and ensure humanity's records will not be lost...."