YouTube: 4% of Comcasts Bandwidth.

Staci at paidContent points to comments made by Comcast’s chairman and CEO Brian Roberts during Thursday’s earnings call.

“Streaming video over the Internet is a great driver of the growth of high-speed Internet. I don’t think there’s any coincidence that we had our strongest year in high-speed Internet and the growth of video on the Internet. People are attracted to it more, it’s easier, it’s fun, and the kind of things that people are doing online continue to be the YouTubes of the world, I think I saw a statistic that 4 percent of all the bits going across high-speed Internet lines at Comcast is YouTube. We don’t view that as a bad thing. We view that as a great thing in terms of the core video business versus a differentiated broadband business.”

That’s an amazing statistic: 4 percent just for YouTube traffic.

It’s no wonder that there is now concern over the Internet’s infrastructure being over run by too much data. YouTube and BitTorrent pwn the Net. Will we run out like so many are saying. Or will Google save us like Cringely says.