Google Cloud previews new BigLake data lakehouse service

Google has announced a preview on Google Cloud of BigLake, a data lake storage service that it claims can remove data limits by combining data lakes and data warehouses. BigLake is designed to address the problems associated with the growing volumes of data and different types of data now being stored and retained by …

[Anonymous Coward]

money

"Because it might be useful" = "Because we think we might be able to sell it"

What this also translates as, we don't actually have a valid legal reason for holding this data but we are going to do it anyway as no one will do anything to stop us.