I'd like to hear another reasonable explanation from MicrosoftEducationTeam beyond "dark data", and I really would like to see any data that qualified the statement "Most schools (99.96%) are well below their storage allotment." Because these limits are simply far too restricting as I mentioned in my original post further up top, and I fail to see how we're really all that special.
To demonstrate -- We are a public state university in the SEC, and we buy 5,600 A3 licenses for our employees. We then get A3 student benefit licenses, of which we are using 32,715 for our student population. If I'm calculating correctly, that will give us a future storage pool of 380 TB. (100 TB + 50 GB x 5,600)
380 TB \ 38,315 users = 9.9 GB per user
So, we have students, faculty, researchers, business staff, and more expected to fit all their Exchange email, personal OneDrive data, and shared SharePoint/Teams data within that average?
This is just asinine. Yes, a majority of users will probably use relatively nothing, but universities will blow right through this. As previously stated, our workloads are already 92TB over what our future storage pool will be. We have a couple dozen high-usage users in each workload, but the vast majority of users are well within what I'd say is "normal". And even if we entirely deleted every bit of data within that small chunk of high-volume users, we'd STILL be over our future storage pool by our calculations.