I'd expect they have both: dedicated machines that they usually use and are sometimes idle, but also the ability to run a job on GCP if it makes sense. (I doub

I'd expect they have both: dedicated machines that they usually use and are sometimes idle, but also the ability to run a job on GCP if it makes sense. (I doubt it's the other way round, that the Deepmind researchers could come in one day and find all their GPUs are being used by some cloud customer).