> if I started selling anthrax the government would try to stop me

Doing so by blocking you from going public while doing nothing about selling anthrax would be at approximate the level of this proposal's dumbness.

> we should actually just put a cap on how much hardware data centres can buy per year

Imagine if legislators had, in the 1980s, limited computer memory to 640 KB [1]?

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/1563853/the-640k-quote...