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Most of the information you are looking is not available at all and the parts that are won’t be shared here. However I’ll try to provide some information on the topic.

1) the money youtube makes and the running expenses are least to say unimportant for whatever reason you think you need them. You can’t derive any decent conclusion even if you had the information, as you’re not in their shoes. Based on web news, though youtube loses about $1mil/day.

2) they use an internally developed platform. It is not a CDN. Cloud hosting and dedicated servers are totally inappropriate terms, though there are “clouds” in that system. Youtube has several layers of infrastructure. Most notable: balancing, several cache layers, application servers, shared data, data storage, “streaming” etc. That’s the simplest and shortest explanation I could make up. The number of “servers” used is in the lots of thousands. The initial youtube has been upgraded with google technologies after the aquisition of course.

3) Banks are the wrong source for such capital. VC is more likely, however investors are usually interested in giving money for markets, scaling, profit etc. not for expenses.

Making youtube what it is now has been a complex process of research, development, marketing and of course “time window opportunity”. Even if you could afford the expenses(and investment) you would have nothing like youtube. Microsoft would probably buy one immediately otherwise

My point is that you really need to understand the scale and proper terminology(going with that scale) in order to make any conclusions. And of course you need to understand that there are no definitive answers on corporate level whatsoever

I hope that my answer will be helpful.