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For a 25 TB dataset, efficiency and cost require minimizing data movement and leveraging

BigQuery’s scalability within Colab Enterprise.

Option A: Exporting 25 TB to Google Drive and loading via Pandas is impractical (size limits, transfer

costs) and slow.

Option B: BigQuery magic commands (%%bigquery) in Colab Enterprise allow direct querying of

BigQuery data, keeping processing in the cloud, reducing costs, and enabling collaboration.

Option C: Dataproc with Spark adds cluster costs and complexity, unnecessary when BigQuery can

handle the workload.

Option D: Copying 25 TB to local storage is infeasible due to size and cost.

Extract from Google Documentation: From "Using BigQuery with Colab Enterprise"

(https://cloud.google.com/colab/docs/bigquery): "You can use BigQuery magic commands

(%%bigquery) in Colab Enterprise to execute SQL queries directly against BigQuery datasets,

providing efficient access to large-scale data without moving it."

Reference: Google Cloud Documentation - "Colab Enterprise with BigQuery"

(https://cloud.google.com/colab/docs).