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by afroboy 1767 days ago
With that amount of money can't they invest in house hosting?
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And deal with the physical stuff ( racking, cabling, cooling, electricity, DCs) and networking stuff ( high quality redundant networking routers, switches, firewalls, the engineers that can use them) ? It's quite possible it would cost more than $400 million / year to do all of that properly at a global scale, and a big part would be paid upfront.