I touched on this subject last night. With Google’s ever increasing appetite for data be it e-mail, video etc. They must have warehouses full of computers with nothing but hard-drives in them. Imagine offering 2 gigs of storage to virtually anyone that wants storage.
Folks that is impressive. But the question has been raised and I agree with Dan Gillmor is who owns that data once Goggle has it. I could realistically see them offering to allow people to upload Audio etc.
At what point does Google stop being a company but a national historic site or being classified a National Archive, with all of that information locked up on their computers and their millions of hard-drives. I really would like to take a walk through one of there storage facilities.
I understand completely why they are building their next data center next to a nuclear power plant. [Dan Gillmor]