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		CodeWriter23 on Feb 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud inf... By "user", you mean an entire company that houses data on thousands or perhaps millions of patients, right?

_pfwi on Feb 3, 2017 [–]

Nop. By user I mean per person, not company. Now take a deep breath and think about the scale of Google Cloud.

secfirstmd on Feb 3, 2017 | [–]

Wow. What takes that much storage per user? Genome sequencing?

eitally on Feb 3, 2017 | | | [–]

Yes (+ associated analysis).

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/08/stanford-medi... or https://www.broadinstitute.org/google

nogbit on Feb 3, 2017 | | | | [–]

Healthcare? Hmmmm, NSA, now that I can believe as they could actually afford it.

_pfwi on Feb 3, 2017 | | | [–]

I don't know.

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