That is google trying to keep their 10% worth something.
And it totally worked too.
They may be buying it, but is there any indication they are using it for consumer-facing stuff? I would suspect given the scale there are many different things. I wish I knew more about standardization for cloud data center workloads though
i don't know if you could say they're buying it "happily". more like begrudgingly.
the deal has a 30-day cancellation policy, and they raised a bunch of debt around the same time to fund their own datacenter expansion.
and they shut down Stadia so they'd have some extra GPUs to use for it as well!