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CEO: SUNDAR PICHAI FOUNDED: 1998

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Google team spotlight: data centre operations

Google is leveraging a decade of custom silicon development to completely re-architect its gigawatt-scale compute footprint. Its seventh-generation Ironwood TPU forces a massive facility shift toward advanced liquid cooling, scaling to high-density pods of 9,216 chips to support anchor tenants like Anthropic, which is deploying 400,000 units. Google’ s eighth-generation TPUs split training and inference into separate chips designed with Broadcom and MediaTek. Backed by 2026 capital expenditure guidance reaching up to US $ 190bn, Google’ s role as a leading hyperscaler continues to evolve.

44 September 2026