That was retail price. Most the operational aspects at google are somewhat fixed costs. Power Cooling are per Server. However given the low load on longtail vi

That was retail price. Most the operational aspects at google are somewhat fixed costs. Power Cooling are per Server. However given the low load on longtail video content & ability for google to co-mingle high IOPs workloads with low IOPs workload. Its not that simple... TLDR, storage is fairly cheap in scheme of things. Even if having infinite video storage costs 100mil/year, google likely makes more from content monitization.