Mihin has lost Rs. 8.5 billion (about $65 million) since it began. Scientists at Harvard have encoded an interactive HTML book into DNA, 70 billion copies of it, or about 44 petabytes of data. You could store all the words information as of 2011 in 4 grams of DNA. DNA isn't a flash drive, but for long term storage of information that's pretty amazing. Right now a lot of data just disappears cause you can't afford to preserve all of it, but with this you could theoretically save everything , from security cameras to snapshots of the web to whatever. Plus DNA is a very hardy medium, so you don't even need air-conditioned data centers and electricity.