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Peter's comment comes off as satire to me. A joke about how absurd it would be for google to store 8 exabytes of data for decades because it might one day be useful.

Because it might one day be useful for.. targeting ads? I can almost see the abuse potential, the ads "I know what you did the summer of 1997" will turn us all into mind controlled consumer drones. (those of us who are old enough)

For them, maybe not. But maybe you heard that there are some agencies which are interested.

I think it was a satirical comment.

When it comes to posts about Google, Poe’s law operates in full force.

I don’t agree with the original point, but there is no doubt lots of telemetry in the cloud.

Telemetry (ie usage data) is very very different the data being stored itself.