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by nerpderp82 1264 days ago
YT is not subsidized by Google, it makes a profit.

The scale of storage and serving is not of any real comparable scale.
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rchaud 1263 days ago
Not for the first 15 years it didn't.
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Nifty3929 1264 days ago
I wonder how many orders of magnitude separate the amount of data stored in YouTube vs Wikipedia? 5? 6? How about data served by them?
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Jensson 1263 days ago
About 8 for storage, wikipedia is gigabytes, youtube is around exabytes.
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