Even the first paragraph is wrong:

> There's a reason your internet feels like magic. When you click a YouTube video in Berlin, that data doesn't travel some convoluted path through half of Europe to reach you. It flows through something called an "internet exchange point"—a giant room full of routers where hundreds of networks connect directly, swapping traffic efficiently and, crucially, for free.

When you open a Youtube video page, the video is probably loaded from Google's caching servers located in your ISPs network.