As does consciousness. We have here a difference between private and non-private information, such as was alluded to by Wittgenstein in his philosophical exercises concerning consciousness. The private nature of consciousness can be imagined as the event horizon of a black hole. Private memories are experienced by a human body, and thus a human mind, completely separate from all other bodies. This is why they can never be extracted or copied, as can computer data.
Computer data is non-private data.
The fact that a global network exists linking computers to one another is one reason they are barred from becoming conscious. Even those separate from, say, the Internet, cannot become conscious because they have no sense organs with which to experience the real world. A computer with ten trillion bytes of RAM but with no eyes or ears would not suddenly become conscious in a mystical flash. Even if it had eyes and ears it would need innumerable other similar computers to interact with. Such an eventuality is unlikely, given the thrust of Western society.