During my quarters at university, I took a class that focused heavily on creating data visualizations to not only exemplify an exorbitant abundance of values, but also create something artistic and visually dynamic. 

You can get a list of numbers, but sometimes you don't realize how vast things are until you see them visually compared to other items.  For example the above visualization represents Google's amount of servers in comparison to other big known companies/industries as well such as Facebook, Intel and etc.  What surprised me was that Verizon and Time Warner Cable had more than AT&T.

Let's hope Google stays the good guys, because pretty soon they'll have the power to take over the world.

click to enlarge image and get the full visualization.