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title: "Consent: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent
description: "Consent: The last link of the chain, the one in which the people affected hold no paper."
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# Consent

What does “Consent” mean?

ConsentThe last link of the chain, the one in which the people affected hold no paper. Its no is held by a board, a regulator, a court or a ballot, and it mostly relocates, delays and reprices. In 2026 permission moved from a cost the builders paid to a race they could lose, run in polls, elections and legislatures. *Chapter 9.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

The book uses this term in a sense of its own.

Defined in [Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-9).

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-9)Who gets to say yes or no to a campus: counties, air regulators, courts and legislatures, and what their permits, abatements and refusals cost in time and money.

## Where the record uses it

- Dated test [Chapter 12, Southaven’s calendar, due 31 December 2026](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2026-6)
- Dated test [Chapter 12, claim 2, the forecast, due 31 December 2028](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2028-14)
- Dated test [Chapter 12, claim 3, a bargain kept, due 31 December 2028](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2028-16)
- Dated test [Chapter 14, the movement upward, toward a strategic engine, due 31 August 2029](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2029-8)

## Also discussed in

- Chapter notes [Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-9)

## Sources that use it

- Amended and Restated Master Equipment Rental Agreement between Mobile Energy Rentals LLC (a Solaris Energy Infrastructure subsidiary) and CTC Property LLC, 28 April 2025, signed for CTC by Jared Birchall as corporate secretary and for the lessor by Kyle Ramachandran; Exhibit 10.4 to Solaris’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 30 June 2025 (monthly rent paid in advance; title remains with the lessor; the customer bears risk of loss, may not relocate equipment without written consent, reimburses removal and return costs plus a redacted markup, and must obtain and maintain the “Customer Permits” and bear fines for failing to; escalation from the third contract year at a redacted percentage; rates, unit schedule and commencement conditions in a separate Rental Order not filed; assigned by the lessor the same day to Stateline Power LLC under an Assignment and Assumption Agreement and Consent, recorded in the Stateline LLC agreement’s Exhibit A definition of the Rental Agreement (Exhibit 10.3 to the same 10-Q), so that Stateline is the lessor that holds title under section 6.01; the lessor also obtains and maintains the “Lessor Permits” for the rental itself). [In the Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/filing#solaris-mera)
- RD Michigan Property Owner I LLC, Feldkamp Siblings LLC, Dennis and Lynn Ellen Finkbeiner, Wilkin Farm Properties I LLC and Dennis C. and Alice M. Wilkin v. Saline Township, consent judgment, Washtenaw County Circuit Court, Civil Action 2025-001577-CZ, entered 15 October 2025 before Hon. Julia B. Owdziej (the judgment is the approval and the residents on the caption were the sellers: the township board had denied the conditional rezoning of about 575 acres 4 to 1 on 10 September 2025 and the plaintiffs filed on 12 September, paragraph 4, “This Consent Judgment shall constitute Final Site Plan approval”, recital 1(j), the Owners “as sellers, entered into purchase agreements to sell the Property to Developer”, recitals 1(c) and 1(e) recording the Finkbeiners and the Wilkins as residing in Saline Township, and, while paragraph 28 has the court retain jurisdiction, paragraph 29, “Nothing contained in this Consent Judgment shall give any third party a private cause of action against the parties”; paragraph 3(l) $2,000,000 to a farmland preservation trust following the Industrial Facilities Exemption Certificate and a vertical-construction building permit, “whichever last occurs”, and “another Two Million ($2,000,000) within one (1) year”; 3(m) $2,000,000 to the township on the same trigger; 3(n) $7,000,000 to the Saline Area Fire Department and $500,000 each to Clinton Township and Manchester, half following the certificate “or within one year following commencement of construction of the Data Center, whichever last occurs”, and “the remaining one-half of the Fire Payments upon issuance of a certificate [of] occupancy”; 3(t) “The sound emitted from the operation of the Data Center shall at all times not exceed 55db at all property lines”, generators for emergencies and testing “during daylight hours only and not more than once per week”; 3(k) if neighboring wells “go dry as a result of water usage by the Data Center the Developer and/or the tenant will pay all costs to restore the water service”; 3(s) a decommissioning bond before occupancy “in no event less than $5 million or greater than $10 million”; paragraph 16 a separate $2,000,000 site-improvement guarantee; paragraph 36 makes the judgment terminable if the developer does not acquire the property within six months of entry). [In the Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/filing#saline-consent-judgment-oct25)
- Martin Watzinger, Thomas A. Fackler, Markus Nagler and Monika Schnitzer, “How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree,” *American Economic Journal: Economic Policy* 12, no. 4 (2020) (counts the reach of the decree’s royalty-free limb: “the Bell System had to license all its patents issued prior to the decree royalty-free to any applicant, with the exception of RCA, General Electric, and Westinghouse, who already had cross-licensing agreements with Bell (the so-called B-2 agreements),” making “7,820 patents in 266 United States Patent Classification (USPC) technology classes … or 1.3 percent of all unexpired US patents” freely available; names the three B-2 counterparties the decree itself does not) [In the Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/research#watzinger-bell-labs-1956)

## Related terms

- [Chain, the](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/chain-the)
- [Conversion, prevention](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/conversion-prevention)
- [Five contests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/five-contests)
- [Five races](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/five-races)
- [Moving bottleneck](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/moving-bottleneck)
- [Scorecard’s clocks](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/scorecard-s-clocks)
- [Strategic engine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/strategic-engine)
- [Thesis, the](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/thesis-the)
- [Agreed order](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/agreed-order)
- [Catalytic controls](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/catalytic-controls)
- [Clean Air Act](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clean-air-act)
- [Evidentiary hearing](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/evidentiary-hearing)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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