Comment by Bahamut

LinkedIn has roughly 10k employees - they're in an arms race for office space with Google and Apple in the area, but it sounds like this agreement should resolve most of the issues with Google and LinkedIn. Being that LinkedIn's headquarters is currently blocks away from the Googleplex and considering Google's dominance of the land north of the 101, it has left LinkedIn with little room to grow in its main cluster of buildings, and so it has been forced to look in Sunnyvale. Unfortunately, Apple has also expanded quite significantly into Sunnyvale in search of more land.