Read about this today - basically a radio telescope to cover a large proportion of our country (and some of New Zealand)
http://www.watoday.com.au/technology/sci-tech/wa-in-spotlight-as-space-race-heats-up-20120213-1t1hv.html
The interesting part for me was the rate at which this 'SKA' will need to transmit and store data...
'To put it into perspective, the telescope will capture the equivalent of more than a million CD ROMs of data every minute'
and
'the amount of data generated by the whole world in one year will need to be stored in a single day'