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I think they may be investing a lot on future cloud infrastructure. they're pouring a lot in AI chip design which will dominate in 5+ years specially when cars
by onelovetwo 5y ago
I think they may be investing a lot on future cloud infrastructure. they're pouring a lot in AI chip design which will dominate in 5+ years specially when cars become fully self-driving.
- wongarsu 5y agoIf they put things like TPU development and TPU advertising costs (Google Colab) into the Google Cloud budget I can easily see that being responsible for a notable part of this loss.
- nomoreplease 5y agoIt says in the article this is mostly due to headcount and compensation. That’s a recurring expense and not a TPU that can be sold
- wongarsu 5y agoTPUs are developed by people (aka headcount that gets compensation).