Sorry, this stinks to high heaven
The moment I heard about I thought "There is NO WAY on God Green Earth that Google would have allowed an account to be setup WITHOUT a credit card or credit facility available."
Or, to put it another way, I challenge any commentard to set up an account, without a credit facility and then run up such an enormous bill.
Google would take the money from the credit provider, leaving the card/account holder to stump up.
But, it has distracted the less discerning of us from learning whatever horrors Theresa May has planned for the rest of us ...