$33M a month is the right magnitude. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if it's actually way too low, and they're getting really deep discounts.
Which means, 50 cents per Mbps/per month. Usually a 1Mbps means about 190GB of transfer over the course of a month, I think. So 1000 * 190GB = 0.190 PB per month.
412PB thus means ~ 2200 Gbit/s . Under my pricing, I get a whole lot less than $33M / month.
So, does your calculation involve storing that same 412PB?
Is my math off?
If I push 1 GB per month, https://www.google.com/search?q=1GB%2Fmonth+in+mbps&oq=1GB%2...
You can assume they are not paying list rate when they buy $400M of service.
If they push ~40gbps on average, that's 13PB - https://www.google.com/search?q=40gbps+*+30+days+in+PB&oq=40...
13PB is 13M GB. 13M GB @ .08/GB = $1.04M
$1.04M/40gbps = 1.04M/40000 = $26/Mbps.
I pay less than a 10th of that outside.
But given that Snap could be anywhere in the USA, they could locate their servers anywhere. I wasn't pushing Denver, or the colo I am in, as the solution.
It's just kind of shocking that people are willing to pay 20 times or more the going rate for bandwidth...