{"slug": "quota-increase-request-academic-dataset-storage-for-tutti", "title": "[Quota Increase Request] Academic Dataset Storage for [TUTTI]", "summary": "Hugging Face's storage limits documentation directs research and non-profit projects seeking dataset storage grants to email datasets@huggingface.co with a detailed proposal, but grants are case-by-case and not guaranteed for academic projects. The dataset page currently reports a total file size of about 8.61 TB, while the original request cited 8.3 TB needed with 7.83 TB quota reached, suggesting the situation may have changed.", "body_md": "Hmm… I don’t know whether 8.3 TB would be approved, but I think making the request by email (`datasets@huggingface.co`\n\n) would be the more reliable route:\n\nIf this is still unresolved, the current Hugging Face [Storage Limits documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/storage-limits) explicitly points dataset storage-grant requests from research/non-profit projects to ** datasets@huggingface.co**, with a detailed proposal.\n\nSo I would probably use that as the primary route rather than relying on the forum post alone.\n\nI would include at least:\n\nThe main thing I would be cautious about is the **grant itself**. The public documentation describes these grants as **case-by-case**, rather than as an automatic academic entitlement. So I don’t think we can infer from the public docs that an academic project will necessarily receive ~8.3 TB, or that a Free account will automatically be allowed that amount under a grant.\n\nIn other words, I think the part we can answer fairly confidently is **where to ask**; the part only HF can really answer is **what storage arrangement they would approve for this project**.\n\nThere is also a small wrinkle: the dataset page currently appears to report a **total file size of about 8.61 TB**, even though the original post says `8.3TB needed (7.83TB quota reached)`\n\n. So it is quite possible that the situation has already changed since this post was made — perhaps the upload continued, the quota changed, or some other arrangement was made. I wouldn’t try to infer which from the public page alone.\n\nSo if you have already solved the immediate problem, this may be moot. But if you still need a formal quota/grant arrangement — especially if model weights or additional artifacts are still to come — the email route still seems like the clearest documented next step.\n\nHow I would interpret Free vs. academic vs. storage grantSo, short version: **if you still need the increase, I would email datasets@huggingface.co with the repository, current/expected total size, academic/public-release context, and whatever concrete impact/reuse information you have.** The public docs give a fairly clear route for making the request; they just don’t give us enough information to predict whether ~8.3 TB will actually be granted.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quota-increase-request-academic-dataset-storage-for-tutti", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/quota-increase-request-academic-dataset-storage-for-tutti/178570#post_2", "published_at": "2026-08-11 09:02:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 09:12:00.100003+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Hugging Face"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quota-increase-request-academic-dataset-storage-for-tutti", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quota-increase-request-academic-dataset-storage-for-tutti.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quota-increase-request-academic-dataset-storage-for-tutti.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quota-increase-request-academic-dataset-storage-for-tutti.jsonld"}}