[mike_d]

> Google is apparently now hosting this dataset to make money

Public datasets are hosted for free by Google (Amazon has a similar program) to take the burden off public projects.

You didn't pay for the data, you paid for the query you ran against it.

[Jgrubb]

Well sure, but how do you query the data they're hosting for free without using google services?

[anon84873628]

Well, sure. But it is convenient to have lots of sample data. Also you get the first TiB per month free in BQ.

Also note that anyone can make a dataset available for public use, where they pay the storage and the consumer pays the compute. The official Google datasets are just curated and maintained by Google itself.