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Data centers typically use 60% (or less) on average of their max rating.

You over-provision so that you (almost) always have enough compute to meet your customers needs (even at planet scale, your demand is bursty), you're always doing maintenance on some section, spinning up new hardware and turning down old hardware.

So, apples to apples, this would likely not even be 2x at 30TWh for Google.



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