From what I hear the biggest chunk of cost per GB in a datacenter is already operational costs (most of it salaries). Even though, acquisition cost for infrast

From what I hear the biggest chunk of cost per GB in a datacenter is already operational costs (most of it salaries). Even though, acquisition cost for infrastructure may drastically come down further, operational costs may not. And AWS still may continue to do business. I agree that having user's data with you is of more strategical value than providing pure platform services for computing and stuff.