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 ::The issue here was essentially related to the source. The opening sentence says ""YouTube may pay less to be online than you do, a new report on internet connectivity suggests."" The use of the words ""may"" and ""suggest"" makes this far short of a factual statement. The figure of $1 million a day for the bandwidth in 2008 has been widely cited, but it is hard to comment on its accuracy. This could be removed from the article without a great loss. The figure of 24 hours of video uploaded per minute comes from YouTube's fact sheet , so this is not an estimate. The figure of YouTube using more bandwidth in 2007 than the Internet in 2000 is reliably sourced, and is an estimate. The main point here is that YouTube's bandwidth requirements are huge. It is hard to put an exact figure on what they are, or what they cost.  "