Russian Court Wants Google to Pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

A Russian court has ordered Google to pay a calculated sum of money to more than a dozen TV channels whose shows the tech company blocked from appearing on YouTube.

The fine has been increasing since 2020, when Russian outlets Tsargrad TV and RIA FAN sued Google for blocking their content, according to Novaya Gazeta. Since then, the sentence has continued to grow as 15 other channels, including Kremlin-backed networks, have won court cases against Google. “As of Tuesday, the fine has reached 2 undecillion rubles (2 followed by 36 zeros), which is equivalent to R20 decillion (2 followed by 34 zeros) US dollars.

Given that Google has gone years without paying a fine, it’s unlikely that the company will open its audit trail as the numbers get worse. And even if it wanted to, Google couldn’t cover the bill. As the fourth most valuable company in the world, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has a market capitalization of only $2 trillion.

Ukrainian news agency RBC-Ukraine reported that court fines double each week that Google fails to pay. At that rate, it will take approximately 219 weeks for Google to deliver $1 googol (1 followed by 100 zeros).

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

While the current fine may not be realistic, Russian TV channels’ court cases against Google have had real consequences for the company. A subsidiary of Google declared bankruptcy in 2022 after courts seized more than $100 million in assets from its Russian accounts, The Telegraph reported. Google has challenged several Russian retailers to prevent them from tracking the company’s goods in other countries, including South Africa, Turkey, Serbia, and Kyrgyzstan.

The YouTube block of Tsargrad TV in 2020 came after the US sanctioned its owner, Konstantin Maolfeyev, a Russian oligarch who the Justice Department said was involved in the country’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. RIA FAN was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to Novaya Gazeta, who was the founder of the prestigious Wagner Group and was a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin before leading the uprising against the Russian leader last year that ended with the plane carrying Prigozhin. and nine others mysteriously crashed.

Since then, YouTube has blocked hundreds of channels linked to Russian-owned news outlets like RT to comply with US sanctions. The company also said some Russian channels were blocked because they posted content that “minimized or simplified well-documented incidents of violence,” referring to Russia’s ongoing offensive in Ukraine.