The entire internet weighs about the same as a strawberry.

This is not a metaphor. It is a scientific estimate.

The internet, despite feeling vast and intangible, has a physical presence. Every email, image, message, and search exists because electrons move through servers, fibre-optic cables, and data centres across the world. Those electrons have mass. Extremely small mass, but mass nonetheless.

Physicists estimate that when you calculate the total number of electrons currently carrying information across the global internet at any given moment, their combined weight is roughly 50 grams. About the weight of a strawberry.

What gives the internet its apparent enormity is not weight, but distribution. Its data is spread across millions of servers, under oceans, across continents, inside phones, laptops, satellites, and data centres consuming more electricity than many countries. The illusion of immensity comes from scale and dependence, not physical heaviness.

This fact reveals something unsettling about modern civilisation. Humanity has placed its memory, economy, relationships, and political power into something that is physically light, but socially heavy. A system that can be disrupted not by bombs alone, but by power outages, server failures, policy decisions, or digital control.

The internet feels permanent because we live inside it. In reality, it is fragile. It requires constant energy, maintenance, and stability to exist. Without electricity, it disappears instantly.

The fact is simple and uncomfortable:the infrastructure holding the modern world together weighs less than most people’s lunch.

Facts do not shout. They sit quietly, waiting to be understood.

The facts of the day.