every analysis ive ever seen about YouTube bandwidth costing google vast sums of money completely ignores that they are directly peered with almost every ISP on

every analysis ive ever seen about YouTube bandwidth costing google vast sums of money completely ignores that they are directly peered with almost every ISP on earth and pay absolutely nothing per byte or per mb/s and just assume they pay level 3 or similar tier 1 provider publicly stated rates. Thats the real moat Google has, to replicate it would likely cost hundreds of millions a month in bandwidth, especially from places where they charge insane amounts (like GCP)