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In 2022, Discord had a revenue of $445 million. Maybe if they were a private company that would be enough.
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/discord-statistics/
Revenue is not the same as income. Maintaining cross-platform apps and hosting nearly a decade of messages and media attachments is gonna eat into that. Also, Discord is in fact a private company.
Google says storage is cheap. This is solely for profit.
That's not how hosting a platform works. The storage might be cheap per GB, but the database management for something on Discord's scale is a complicated and expensive feat of engineering: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages