Yes I guess I was thinking if Youtube isn’t a part of Google officially as a company in a proposed split, they’d have to actually pay for the Google datacenter

Yes I guess I was thinking if Youtube isn’t a part of Google officially as a company in a proposed split, they’d have to actually pay for the Google datacenter costs. Similar to how eBay left PayPal once they split. It wasn’t worth PayPal’s prices. So I was assuming all this with the hypothetical inclusion of the actual cost of YouTube. I agree with the Google servers and bandwidth being essentially free, YouTube likely breaks even at least.