A silver lining is that the NVIDIA/OpenAI deal was cut by ~70% this week, so hopefully the reality of AI not being a panacea sets in for those who have been driving the prices up. If the planned data centers never actually get built, production will shift back and consumer pricing should adjust accordingly. The MBA class will keep trying to manipulate it artificially of course, but they'll only be able to keep the ruse this far from reality for so long.
Unfortunately even an astronomical sum like this is still in "slap on the wrist" territory for a company that size. This is for a single incident, though, not class action. So it could be a valuable precedent in actually forcing them to act more responsibly for fear of more meaningful consequences.
Sorry to go all grammarnacionalesozcialistsk but it's "No one is too wealthy/powerful for the law to apply to them" or "No one is wealthy/powerful enough to be above the law". These people are supposed to have English degrees…
People who have time to worry about "optics" aren't doing anything important.