Google Docs, Sheets, and other files will take up more account storage in 2021
Google is set to implement a major change to its consumer cloud storage policy. From June 1, 2021, new files created in Drive — including Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard — will count against users' 15GB free allotment and any supplementary Google One storage. This is in addition to attachments in those files, which already do count. The news comes at the same time a similar revamp was announced for Google Photos storage.
Currently, only the attachments within a Drive document are tallied against user storage. But from the middle of next year, the actual document/spreadsheet/presentation file in any of the above services will go towards users' storage quota if they have been created on and after June 1. They will also count if they were created before that date, but have been edited since.