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Re:The death of corporate research labs by nl on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:08AM (#23259262)
Google makes a $15B a year from YouTube.

That pays for a lot of storage. And storage is very cheap at that scale.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

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Re:The death of corporate research labs by kajecounterhack on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:43PM (#23260807)
Cost of streaming videos is not storage, it's dominated by bandwidth. Bandwidth is expensive when you can't cache videos the way Netflix does.
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Re:The death of corporate research labs by nl on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:17PM (#23267273)
a) Google doesn't pay for bandwidth. They have peering agreements because of all the dark fiber they bought (https://www.lightreading.com/optical/dwdm/google-dark-fiber-...)

This isn't exclusive to Google though - most large bandwidth users have peering agreements.

b) Google does have edge caches[1]. It's true that the long tail of YouTube videos is longer than Netflix, but since Google doesn't pay for traffic (see (a)) this only affects speed, not cost.

[1] https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure

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