# Filecoin in 2021: Looking Back at a Year of Exponential Growth

<https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/filecoin-in-2021-looking-back-at-a-year-of-exponential-growth/>

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- Saved: January 17, 2022 (2022-01-17T16:47:11Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

Total capacity in Filecoin network has grown more than 7x, but utilization is extremely slow and grown less than 2x in same period. Overall storage utilization is very low at just 1.7%.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT208: Weekly Thing #208 / GPS, Intel, Omicron](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/208/), Briefly

## Same host

- [Filecoin Network Crosses Baseline Sustainability Target for First Time](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/267b1642d1b3/) (filecoin.io, May 20, 2021)
- [IPFS, Filecoin, and ‘Content Persistence’](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ea87d88ca72b/) (filecoin.io, June 3, 2021)
- [Introducing the Filecoin Virtual Machine](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/39784c0ca2f5/) (filecoin.io, November 11, 2021)
- [The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is live on Mainnet!](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/848368b22244/) (filecoin.io, March 16, 2023)
- [Introducing Lassie - a retrieval client for Filecoin and IPFS](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6bf4edf66493/) (filecoin.io, May 15, 2023)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/filecoin-in-2021-looking-back-at-a-year-of-exponential-growth/