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This is what I was wondering too. I suppose it's useful because it separates internal demand from external prices, so internal teams can be compared with a comm
by robertlagrant 3y ago
This is what I was wondering too. I suppose it's useful because it separates internal demand from external prices, so internal teams can be compared with a common currency, and planning can happen on that basis, and then totally different teams can care about how to purchase compute/storage/etc.
- crotchfire 3y agoMaybe. But how do they decide when to expand a datacenter or build a new one? The demand is priced in quotons but the costs are in dollars. Somebody somewhere at google must be maintaining a quoton/dollar exchange rate. It's weird that it's hidden from the rest of the company. > so internal teams can be compared with a common currency What's wrong with comparing them using dollars (or euros or whatever) as the currency? That's what Google's revenues are measured in terms of. If the price of electricity doubles (like it has in the EU) a team with euro-constant revenues could swing from being highly profitable to a massive loss... and nobody would notice because quotons conceal the cost of electricity.