YouTube costs Google $2 million per day

Every other week these figures appear and every time on HN they are debunked.<p>The Credit Suisse analyst's report has little idea about how delivering large amounts of data on the net works. See my previous comments on this story for more information.

Based on Credit Suisse's bandwidth cost estimate, it seems like YouTube would have to be pushing more than 10PB per day (petabytes). That's assuming a $0.10/GB bandwidth cost. Now, I'm sure that Google is getting a lower bandwidth cost than I can get on a dedicated server as just me with my credit card.<p>So, I think it's safe to assume from those numbers that Google's pushing a few dozen petabytes from YouTube every day. That's a lot of data.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but why is google paying for bandwidth at all?<p>Why doesn't google own their own bandwidth provider? Didn't they buy up a bunch of dark fiber a while ago?<p>Lease it to the providers and use that to subsidize their own bandwidth. Or am I totally missing the point?

There was a big media frenzy back when Google first announced its edge-caches physically located in ISP server rooms: <a href="http://techliberation.com/2008/12/16/edge-caching-vs-preferential-treatment/" rel="nofollow">http://techliberation.com/2008/12/16/edge-caching-vs-prefere...</a> <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Wall-Street-Journals-Google-Hatchet-Job-99684" rel="nofollow">http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Wall-Street-Journals-...</a> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html</a> <a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/net-neutrality-and-benefits-of-caching.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/net-neutralit...</a><p>Why has everyone forgotten?

Yes, but that is $2 million in internet dollars.

Eric Schmidt was talking about how 'micropayments' were the solution. Maybe people would pay a couple cents per video.

I'm guessing they can hold out long enough for flash p2p penetration.

Cool! So, what else is new?<p>Facebook isn't making any money?!