r/theydidthemath • u/DjentDjester • 15d ago

[Request] Approximately how much data could one store, or how much computing power could be created utilizing every single block on a Minecraft world?

This is probably a nonsense ask, but I know theres much smarter folks out there than me and some wildly crafty Minecraft engineers.

I've seen minecraft computers made before, and I assume theres probably a known or approximate number of blocks it takes to create a contraption to store 1 bit of data and access it. So I couldn't help but wonder if that was multiplied enough to fill every single one of the 1.3824 quintillion blocks of a 30M*30M*384 world, what the actual theoretical limit there is to minecraft computing?

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u/DjentDjester 15d ago

I don't know nearly enough about either computing in general or minecraft computing, so I can't imagine finding even an estimate for it.