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Google owns enough infrastructure that the actual cost is much lower than you would expect (hence the significant barriers to entry for any competitors).
I genuinely doubt running a service that allows people to upload ~270.000 hours of videos a day and that makes those videos available almost instantly is cheap, or that they'd own the infrastructure to do so regardless of whether they own YouTube or not.