Enormous fixed cost, yes. Billion not so much. The size of their entire catalog isn't even going to be that significant. Music is tiny even the flac stuff just isn't that big. The streams are so small they probably don't even need peering agreements with most services. I'd be surprised if they're burning more than 10 million a month in infrastructure. Now Netflix, YouTube, live video streaming services, totally different story. Those poor bastards end up maintaining servers inside other people's networks.
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