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Yes, but no.

It's more the original google fiber, when they started running their own long-haul lines to become a backbone ISP back in the early 2000s. That's how they were able to buy youtube and rapidly ratchet up the video quality offered (remember it was originally 240p!) without loses tons of money on transit fees.



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