Repositories/Mirrors/FTP -- who pays for the bandwidth?

Hey, maybe a silly question
But ever since I've started with linux in 05, i've always wondered who pays for all the bandwidth as in where the binaries are hosted and source code. I'm just one user but i've probably downloaded a lot TB's since 05 for free.
I know there's various donation projects etc on most distributions, but that can't be enough to cover all the monthly downloads right?
I know bandwidth is cheap nowdays compared to say 10 years ago, but still i'm willing to bet the most used archlinux mirrors is generating a lot of load.

Yeah. Gotta love the universities. Especially when you're like me and have one only a few miles away hosting Arch, FreeBSD, KDEmod, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo... everything Hooray for downloading everything at 1MB/s (download cap)!
I would like to know though, where does the money for Arch's main server come from though? I know Arch takes donations, but how much has to be footed after that? Etc.

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