Assuming ever block is completely full at 4mb and the difficulty adjustment maintains ~10 minutes per block it will take about 40 thousand years to reach 8 petabytes.
This doesn't change the size that blocks can be, just increases the different kinds of data that could be included and increases the likelihood of available blockspace being used.
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2023-02-14 01:37:32
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2023-02-14 01:37:32Event JSON
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