None of that information is private. The number of cores is in the article, the type of machine he used to use is in the article and the hourly cost of those ma

None of that information is private. The number of cores is in the article, the type of machine he used to use is in the article and the hourly cost of those machines is public knowledge. At worst the revelation here is that someone at google thinks the customer might be using what they've publicly said they used before. And that instance type is the largest high-cpu version available that's not in beta.