Durability and accessibility is solved problem using erasure coding with automatic recovery. Nothing interesting in this space going on for like 10 years unless you’re pushing planetscale storage.

> It's the per rack operational costs that dwarf them. The cost of electricity, cooling etc

Ok lets do some simple math - lets say you have a few racks with 50PB in there, colocated. Power + floor space + remote hands will not cost you more to than 250k/y and that’s being very generous. Dividing by 50PB thats .5c per gig PER YEAR. Can you explain why GCS/S3 charges 50x that not including egress which is also ridiculous?