I have no direct insight, but from what I gather, the amount of data generated there is staggering (1 petabyte/second raw, 1 petabyte/day after filtering). Stor

I have no direct insight, but from what I gather, the amount of data generated there is staggering (1 petabyte/second raw, 1 petabyte/day after filtering). Storing and processing this much data certainly required immense technological advances (which have been shared with the community at large). Again, my impression from far outside. But fundamental research like this does not have short-term prosperity or technological breakthroughs as main priority anyway, so I'm not sure why you're so concerned about that.