Some USA universities literally have endowments in billions/year.
Universities were the places where Unix and Internet thrived back.
And now? Uh-oh hosting our own data is very hard problem. Ridiculous!
Why would they host their own data it Google said they would do it for free? If you’re in IT, how do you even get support for on prem storage if Google has used its monopoly position to provide that service for free?
Privacy, long term access being two reasons. I’d hate to see you and your sloppy way of doing things running an IT dept, you would probably just upload all your data to torrent sites and archive.org as it’s easier