BigQuery has two unusual technical features that make it uniquely suited to hosting public data like this:<p>1. It has a separate "storage tier" and "compute tier", so we can all run queries against the same dataset at the same time.<p>2. The "compute tier" is 100% shared, so I can use BigQuery even if I just want to run a few queries.<p>I hope we'll see more projects like this. Having public data available in SQL is a great thing. SQL is easy enough that a lot of people can figure it out, but powerful enough to do real work.