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by sofixa 1371 days ago
> even then Youtube has been profitable for many years now

How do you know this?

> It represents 10% of Google revenue.

Revenue != profit. Storing zettabytes of videos across the whole world, with the massive CDNs required to be able to serve that whole world isn't cheap. I can easily see YouTube being among the most costly things Google do.