>CA is 973M as zipped csv. CA is a bit over 10% of the US population, so the whole data set will be about 10gb. You can fit that on one of the cheaper linodes p

>CA is 973M as zipped csv. CA is a bit over 10% of the US population, so the whole data set will be about 10gb. You can fit that on one of the cheaper linodes pretty easily. You forgot about unzipping. The total is 13.49 GB zipped, or 133.4 GB unzipped. [0] [0] http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/California/0README_SF1_v2.pdf http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/Califor...