Perhaps it was a fascination with dinosaurs that led to one of the largest units of data volume being called the brontobyte. And just like the Brontosaurus, the brontobyte is also awe-inspiring; it seems gigantic and somehow unmanageable and inconceivable. The brontobyte comes after the gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte.
Most of this increase is not attributable to the depreciation of the exchange rate which has occurred in the last few months because the dollar value of these loans has itself risen by 27 percent over the last 12 months and by over 60 percent in the last 18 months.