How does YouTube, Google, etc. seem to have ‘unlimited’ storage for their users?
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they don’t exactly have ‘unlimited’ storage, free Google account gives you only 15GB all across GMail, Photos, and GDrive (Photos used to be separate, but now they combined them)
YouTube is also another case, they probably have around several hundreds Petabytes of videos, possibly more, and it’s growing *each second* as people uploads their videos.
How they do this?
[They have data centers all across the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_data_centers)
each one is growing and can probably store a crazy amount of data, maybe several Exabytes or so (1 Exabyte = ~1000 Petabyte = ~1,000,000 Terabyte)
They also compress those data and have [their own filesystem](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/a-peek-behind-colossus-googles-file-system)
Don’t underestimate what money can buy lol, especially if you have billions like Google.
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