What is the cloud where my photos live?
Cloud's Secret Home
What is the cloud where my photos live?
When you take a photo on your phone and it says "saved to the cloud," where does it actually go? Not into the sky with the water vapor clouds — though that would be convenient. Your photo is heading somewhere much more interesting: a building full of computers, humming away day and night, holding billions of pictures for billions of people all at once.
Here's what happens the instant you tap "save." Your phone chops your photo into tiny pieces of data — millions of ones and zeros, like a digital jigsaw puzzle. Then it sends those pieces zooming through the air as invisible radio waves to the nearest cell tower.
