Edit: I thought this is about data and not the storage media itself lol.
Obvious answer: It depends.
One individual can have TBs of storage assigned to them, like a cloud storage with years worth of high res family photos or videos, or TBs worth of… homework and Linux distros. This would be nearly useless / cost more to gather than it has a value.
On the other hand, a group of people can have mere kilobytes of text messages between them that is potentially worth millions of dollars stored on a server, like trade secrets or war plans.
A special case to consider: The data of John Doe type individuals I described first can be a valuable asset too if its not one individual but a big accumulation of thousands / millions of people, especially of they can be made comparable to one another. We see this in advertising and will probably realize this value more and more in crowd surveillance and control / opinion making. Especially if all of this data gets analyzed and reduced to machine readable tokens, possibly even on the users end devices, which means the data gets more valuable and more compact at the same time.
My final answer would be: It effectively ranges from negative to positive millions / billions of $ per any given unit.
Edit: I thought this is about data and not the storage media itself lol.
Obvious answer: It depends.
One individual can have TBs of storage assigned to them, like a cloud storage with years worth of high res family photos or videos, or TBs worth of… homework and Linux distros. This would be nearly useless / cost more to gather than it has a value.
On the other hand, a group of people can have mere kilobytes of text messages between them that is potentially worth millions of dollars stored on a server, like trade secrets or war plans.
A special case to consider: The data of John Doe type individuals I described first can be a valuable asset too if its not one individual but a big accumulation of thousands / millions of people, especially of they can be made comparable to one another. We see this in advertising and will probably realize this value more and more in crowd surveillance and control / opinion making. Especially if all of this data gets analyzed and reduced to machine readable tokens, possibly even on the users end devices, which means the data gets more valuable and more compact at the same time.
My final answer would be: It effectively ranges from negative to positive millions / billions of $ per any given unit.