It's easy to think about. Google reported a global average power consumption of 3.7GW in 2024, so you can think of this deal as representing an expansion of something like 10-15% of that 2024 baseline, if you assume 50% capacity utilization.

Funny how "use hugepages" is right there on the table and 99% of users ignore it.

We already recognize that contracts that violate one party's fundamental human rights cannot be enforced because they "shock the conscience", in terms that American jurists use. This article does not include the terms of the non-disparagement clause, or the other terms and payments, so we can't really say whether the clause is vulnerable to being ruled unenforceable by courts. But it's wrong to say that nobody can enter into contracts that constrain their speech. People do that all the time.

That's a ridiculous constraint to put on the freedom to enter into contracts.

The Trump administration is secretly the head of a renewable energy accelerationist front, or at least that's the effect in practice.

I think it's a positive step for American housing market to slowly check off the list of pointless non-solutions so that we can finally arrive at the conclusion that the only way out of the crisis is to build housing. We're just following the San Francisco process here. Ban realpage. Tax vacancies. Complain about foreign investors. Put a tax on "mansions" that's actually a tax on apartment buildings. We will slowly, slowly check off all the boxes of the pointless things. Then 50 years later we can start building houses.