I remember a lot of chatter around Google buying up fiber after many companies had aggressively built out networks in the "broadband" scramble, which then lay unused. So-called "dark fiber". 2005 article:
Google bought Youtube the next year, 2006. This must have been massively useful for moving video around at lower cost rather than the public networks, which were probably built more for normal web traffic. Then peer with local companies who have the clients that are watching videos.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/google-wants-dark-fi...
Google bought Youtube the next year, 2006. This must have been massively useful for moving video around at lower cost rather than the public networks, which were probably built more for normal web traffic. Then peer with local companies who have the clients that are watching videos.