Faculty and staff can keep or obtain a Cornell Google account with Gmail and Google Drive.

To moderate storage growth that could have translated into unsustainable costs when Google begins charging Cornell more as storage increases, in 2022 storage quotas were added to Cornell Google accounts. The caps were set above the storage in the account at that time. Accounts with less than 15 Gigabytes (GB) of storage were given a cap of 15 GB. Accounts with more than 15 GB of storage in Google Drive were given a cap greater than the amount that was stored in the account when the caps were imposed.

It's useful to regularly review the storage you have in Google Drive on your Drive Storage page and remove content that does not need to be in the cloud anymore. Google has tips on managing storage.

If you’re getting near your storage quota and have removed files you don’t need anymore, and you still require more space for education, research, or Cornell business projects, you can request a higher quota.