Solana devs billed $5K for single query via Google Cloud’s BigQuery

Developers are sharing stories related to concerning BigQuery pricing strategies, which charged multiple developers with a $5,000 bill for a single query.
Blockchain developers are sharing "horror stories" related to eye-watering bills received from Google Cloud's BigQuery service, including a developer who was suddenly charged a total of $15,000 for performing three queries.
BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse offered by Google Cloud, designed for analyzing large sets of data via Structured Query Language (SQL) with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
“I want to warn everyone that BigQuery is a big scam and every day you’re risking getting a ridiculous bill that can bankrupt you,” wrote a pseudonymous developer in a post shared by Mikko Ohtamaa, co-founder of decentralized algorithmic trading protocol Trading Strategy, adding:
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