Google to host scientific data

According to Wired Google is planning to host scientific data free of charge and provide access free for all. Somehow I do not share their enthusiasm about the ground breaking importance of this move. As we have seen with Google scholar, it can do naught for you if you do not have guaranteed access to the journals. The question is who will be willing to give up their data for free, not so much who can provide the infrastructure. In today's "publish or perish" academic world the free online journals are marginal enough to hardly save you from perishing and it might not be the most rational choice to give up your data for free.