{
 "id": "walrus-machines-on-the-record-ai-agent-audit-trail/mbb-storage",
 "title": "Illustrative annualized storage charge",
 "subtitle": "Four illustrative workloads, logarithmic scale.",
 "note": "Dashed line: $100M a year, the charge on about 79.4 PB of original data held continuously. Assumptions: records batched into 1 GB blobs, about 4.564 billable GB each after encoding, at $0.023 per GB per month. An illustrative model, not a customer forecast; excludes upload, gas, retrieval, encryption, indexing and support.",
 "source": "",
 "sources": [],
 "report": {
  "title": "Walrus: Machines on the Record",
  "url": "https://www.khala.io/walrus-machines-on-the-record-ai-agent-audit-trail",
  "date_published": "2026-11-10"
 },
 "url": "https://www.khala.io/walrus-machines-on-the-record-ai-agent-audit-trail#ix-mbb-storage-t",
 "publisher": "Khala Research",
 "cite": "Khala Research, \"Illustrative annualized storage charge\", in \"Walrus: Machines on the Record\", November 10, 2026. https://www.khala.io/walrus-machines-on-the-record-ai-agent-audit-trail#ix-mbb-storage-t",
 "csv": "https://www.khala.io/data/walrus-machines-on-the-record-ai-agent-audit-trail/mbb-storage.csv",
 "columns": [
  "Label",
  "Value",
  "Detail"
 ],
 "rows": [
  {
   "Label": "$100M a year · about 79.4 PB held",
   "Value": "",
   "Detail": ""
  },
  {
   "Label": "1M actions a day",
   "Value": "$4.6K",
   "Detail": "Action records, 10 kB each"
  },
  {
   "Label": "10M actions a day",
   "Value": "$46K",
   "Detail": "Action records, 10 kB each"
  },
  {
   "Label": "100M records a day",
   "Value": "$1.38M",
   "Detail": "Richer records, 30 kB each"
  },
  {
   "Label": "10,000 robots",
   "Value": "$4.60M",
   "Detail": "Sensor data, 1 GB each a day"
  },
  {
   "Label": "$1K",
   "Value": "",
   "Detail": "$10K $100K $1M $10M $100M"
  }
 ],
 "quantitative": true
}