This argument is nonsensical. Site hosting is not a customer cost. The rest you list are costs orthogonal to this service. > But asking the customer to pay g

This argument is nonsensical. Site hosting is not a customer cost. The rest you list are costs orthogonal to this service. > But asking the customer to pay google to query the data is crossing the line? Yes. Why are you arguing for a US government agency to require its citizens to pay for access to data which they have already paid for by funding said agency?