If I recall at the time, that is what the business plan was limited to. The site currently says "up to 100TB".
I'm not sure what the plan by default would come with.
To do some speculation:
For your use-case, that means not-unique data, there for sure will be a service in the future from a country that doesn't abide to DMCA. Then those users must not encrypt their data and the hosting-provider can just use deduplication and make their costs minimal. Some Yandex or Baidu-Cloud or whatever.
This is a big business opportunity for them to get western currency. And they also have way cheaper energy to drive those servers.
I mean just look at Telegram. The Russians seem to throw money at it just for the sake of taking over this market. And this is just about "news" and "communication" basically. Imagine getting hold of data and backups from corporations that look for cheap storage options.
This is a no-brainer to do this. Economically and politically.
This whole "game" with large amounts of data just started.
Edit: I think i've already posted this here somewhere, but people should realize that we are not longer in those times when a Petabyte took half a rack for space:
https://twitter.com/FrankWunderli13/status/1690370541289426945
@Turner, @Pariah, Fireload looks interesting. Has anyone tried this out?
There doesn't seem to be any information about the company on their website.
Probably because they work with top brands in the world and it requires upmost secrecy:)
Good is that triplet brothers love it:
At least they used nice template for their website - but did not pay much attention to details.
Their payment does not accept credit cards (which is not surprise for company without address) and they strongly try to encourage users to pay yearly bill by offering generous discount. hahaha.
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Looking at PCloud, they mention that you could add a 2TB lifetime plan to a 500GB lifetime plan and get 2.5TB lifetime. They now sell a new 10TB lifetime plan (which is probably a good option in itself if you are in the 3-10TB data need).
My question would be - could you stack 10TB lifetime plans (ie buy 10 and have 100TB lifetime storage)? If stackable, that might be the cheapest option for large storage needs. Cost is about $100/TB, but it is a one time cost to have for 99 years. So about 10K to get 100TB for life...that is about same cost as lowest sync unlimited plan for 16yrs...but without the bitching from Sync about how much you use or what types of files you are saving. PCloud also doesn't have any filetype/size restrictions.
Just not sure on the limits of stackability. Even if you need a separate email for each 10TB account, it might still be worth it for lifetime space. Does anyone know?
Problem with lifetime plans, is it's the lifetime of the business, and the lifetime that, that business wants to offer the service.
I'm sure they have some legal loopholes that say, they can drop you as a client at any time. Or, they vanish next month. 
PCloud has been fairly good so far. I've had the 2TB lifetime plan for about 8yrs. I don't know how it measures up on a lot of the fancy stuff - but it allows upload/download like a virtual drive, and I can share folders. Slow upload speed (can be as high as 10MB/s, averages in the 4-5MB/s range and can slow to a crawl if you try to upload too many files at once (tried uploading 250,000 MP3 in one load and it was running at about 1MB/s). But functional, and can upload more in a week than Box allows in a month. I'm not real tech savvy, so as long as I can get stuff to and from the cloud faster than I acquire new stuff that needs storage, and there is cloud space to store it, and I can afford it, it works for me. For most providers - they either have the affordable price or the space but not both.
IF (big if) PCloud can stack lifetime plans, it would be affordable for my basic (but large volume) needs. If they don't stack, I've pretty much given up on a viable option for large cloud storage. Sounds like the monthly providers either all seem to boot folks once they get much above 10TB or they charge per GB that adds up to $100+/mo for like 50TB max.
For now, I'm going all Marie Kondo on my collection (purge/retain based on what is most important in limited drive space). But if I find a decent cloud option, I'll rebuild (or at least stop purging).
Update: Once you have a lifetime account, there is an update button that allows you to increase storage by buying additional lifetime plans. I just added 10TB to my 2TB, so have 12TB lifetime for now. I went back to the update button and it gives me option to add another 2TB or another 500GB lifetime...but the 10TB is greyed out. Not sure if that is a permanent thing or just not available so soon after adding it once. I'll check it periodically. Appears I can at least get another 2TB or so, so maybe they capped at something less than 22TB, so that I have room to grow but can't buy something that would exceed such threshold. If you need a home for 14TB or less, we at least know it will give us that much.
Further update - Did some combing of PCloud's Facebook page, and found a post from them to another user that tells them that the most you can get with a single account is 16TB. Not bad. The next question, I'm still working on, is whether one can have more than one account. In theory, seems like it should be allowed as one person could have one personal and one work account, or be getting several for family that all use same PC. Will post when/if I find out.
LOL triplet brothers!
There's so many things wrong with this speculation, I don't even know where to start.
But I'm too lazy today so let's do just one point: for as long as there's basically just 2ish large cloud providers and 2 large drive manufacturers, nothing has just started. It basically ended. And it won't re-start for a long while.
And don't get me started on Russia and TG, that is gonna implode so fast, people will think it had never even existed.
I really wonder why there is so many trolls here in this board.
And yes you are lazy. And ignorant.
There isn‘t just two cloud providers:
google
amazon
Akamai
Citrix cloud
Dropbox
Box
Microsoft azure
Oracle cloud
Digital ocean
IBM Cloud
Cloudways
Rackspace
Hetzner
OVH
Pcloud
Sun Cloud
Yandex Cloud
Baidu Cloud
Alibaba Cloud
And many many more.
I could go on here for half an hour.
Most of those aren't catered for consumers (yet), but for business. But that doesn't matter on the long run.
And there isn‘t just two drive manufacturers.
I even showed an image that we are not talking about old fashioned spinning disks from Seagate or WD.
The amount of data businesses (and private people) are creating is rising fast. Of course there will be need to store this stuff somewhere. Of course this industry is growing, not shrinking (or "ending") as you assume.
How on earth you could even come to such conclusions? You are bitter because of your box-contract yes?
On a related topic, one of my old Google accounts (with a ton of data still there) is unexpectedly dying the next 29th (6 days from now!) so I'm now in a hurry to move my data out, and just plain rclone isn't going to make it -- so I'm resorting to gclone, and it's being a first-time for me, so I could use some help.
I have created a topic for that: Best gclone "fork"?
If you have any gclone experience, please consider responding to me there.
TIA!
There ARE so many trolls here, to you, because you really dont know what a troll is, apparently. Also, you dont know what a cloud storage provider is, apparently.
Although, I do have to admit, I left the "storage" part out in my original post but seeing where we are here and what the topic at hand is, I assumed it was a given. If not, here for the annals', I meant "cloud storage provider".
a) Seagate and WDC make up over 80% of the HDD market
b) Samsund and WDC make up over 60% of the SDD market
c) Google Drive, Amazon AWS and MS Azure make up over 70% of the cloud storage market
a) & b) are de-facto oligopolies and underline my above point. plus they are the reason, we're still paying about 50 times (!) what we should be paying for SSD storage (Samsung decided to rape us, plus the 1 billion or so investment in new plants hinder competition)
c) apart from maybe Alibaba, those are the only 3 relevant to this conversation because no one else has/had the means and motivation to host unlimited or at least data in the 10s/100s of TB area for a reasonable amount of money
This all will not change for the better or to our favour as you pondered until a unicorn appears or a technological breakthrough happens. The big 3 never had any intention on supplying the low-end (or even mid tier) market that was only just to create buzz, market share and increase stock price value. But mainly, to create buzz and convince the highly lucrative corporate market to switch to cloud storage (and computing). Now that this has happened, they got rid of the dead weight. And are tightening the grip on their corporate customers who are - like a junkie on a dealer - dependent on them for some of the most critical business processes and data needs. it really is a no brainer that this business model is sustainable and highly net profit oriented.
I'm not bitter. I'm angry. I do due diligence and market research for a living. I've always know what they're doing. I just didnt think they would show their cards so obviously, so quickly and so drastically. They basically flipped us off after having us over a barrel for such a long time. And are getting away with it.
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How many terabytes are you going to move?
Src: WW SSD Shipments Up 16.6% Q/Q to 75 Million in 2CQ23 - StorageNewsletter
And here in comparison to 2020:
Src: 333 Million SSDs Shipped in 2020 Corresponding to 207EB - StorageNewsletter
I see other numbers than you by people that also say they do "due diligence and market research" professionally. There is always a lot of people who pretend to know the future in every sector of industry.
I at least mentioned that i speculate. You seem to be very convinced of yourself.
I would make a wager against you on this case.
More than 6*750GB... 
Isn't the download limit 10tb/day?
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That‘s not a big problem. No need gclone since policy has been changed several months ago, all accounts share 750GB now.
In fact, the download quota is around 10TB a day per account. As long as you have good internet bandwidth, you can download all of them in 2 days...
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Fireload "business" is limited to 5TB to start with. Then $8.25 per month per additional TB after that. The 100TB is the max you are allowed to purchase.
Support never replied to my requests, so I bought a Business account to test instead.
Unfortunately, almost every one of those has business pricing which is more than a standard consumer can bear. I have checked almost every one of them (all that rclone has plus others) and the pricing for 125 TB is absurd. I am not sure what I am going to do or whether I will just be deleting my accounts and not dealing with rclone/Plex/Emby storage other than local anymore. I keep coming back to this thread hoping for another option, as Box still hasn't updated their pricing page but promises to cancel any new account as per TOS of 3 TB, and I have found nothing else reasonable.
If I missed a post/price, please correct me, but S3 compatible storage pricing is not for me.
Thanks.