[solid_fuel]

Your desired unit of measurement is a stupid and pointless one.

No one measures data centers by “datacenter-acre”, because what matters is resource consumption not power density. A 20 MW is going to consumer 20 WM of power and require 20 MW of cooling, regardless of how many acres it sits on.

[yellowapple]

Power density is the exact metric by which datacenters are differentiated between “hyperscalar” (i.e. what most people call “AI datacenters”) v. your run-of-the-mill colocation DC.

Also: a flat MW cap per DC is straightforward to game by splitting one big DC into multiple smaller DCs.