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Nope, more like 2 petabytes plus 1 bit. Because almost all of that new top 8m is the same atom (empty air), if they are using an octree to store the voxels, then it would take 1 extra bit to store an empty top 8m. Obviously if there are things in the top 8m, it will take more space, but only for the things that are there.


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