That’s even more true for american high profile university and their deep pockets. They likely already have datacenters and high bandwidth internet connections

That’s even more true for american high profile university and their deep pockets. They likely already have datacenters and high bandwidth internet connections (multiple). Oh and they also have staff already on the payroll, and likely capable students that could lend a hand as a part time job or something. Not to mention, the role of big corporations could be reduced to cdn only, for example (tink of google cdn, cloudfront or cloudflare). It just take willingness to actually address the problem.