When you have a lot of money to invest sometimes you just have to invest in metadata.
The Facebook_effect continues to grow in popularity and so much more data continues to be tracked and stored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accidental_Billionaires ,
You start out in a rock band in your teens & a few decades later the big money just keeps piling up. That's what has happened to a few of the world's most popular and successful bands like U2.
http://billionaires.forbes.com/topic/Bono of the band U2.
Since the early 1990s, U2 has always been big on technology, as well as good showmanship.
The more data, the more places it needs to be stored.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/12/03/wsj-google-has-bought-111-8th-avenue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Criticisms_and_controversies ,
http://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-admits-tracking-user-data-319518 ,
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/how-stop-facebook-google-and-twitter-tracking-you-174549 ,
Data, information and entertainment are all part of the mass marketing industry ZOO.
U2 in Montreal.