Amazon's Snowmobile will let you upload stuff by the truckload – literally

The truck carries a shipping container holding a mobile data centre which can store up to 100 petabytes

"The internet is not something that you just dump something on," the American senator Ted Stevens famously said in 2006. "It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."

Ted Stevens was wrong. The internet is a big truck, and Amazon wants to drive it right up to your gaff to give you better upload speeds.