Until Dec 2023 (not even a year-and-a-half ago, yet) Storj payout rates were above what they were earning from customers: and SNOs were bleeding out all the treasury coins. The farther back you go… the more nodes were being overpaid.
High historical payouts… were never because of high historical usage. It was “free money”: but those piles of tokens were burned through by now…
Edit: This data has a lot of dropouts: but it’s the node “Used” number from the last year.
Ignoring the massive spike in Test Data… doesn’t it still look like data is increasing?