It has to be true today. They couldn't afford to run that on their own servers. As big and popular as the cloud may be it is still utterly dwarfed by the amount

It has to be true today. They couldn't afford to run that on their own servers. As big and popular as the cloud may be it is still utterly dwarfed by the amount of computation power available in the not-cloud. What happens in 10 years, now, I make no claim.