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PC Gamer
Andy Edser

Google needs to double its AI serving capacity 'every six months' and scale 'the next 1000x in 4-5 years' according to an internal presentation

A screenshot of a very messy factory in, err, Satisfactory.

If there's one thing sure to ruin your day at work, it's receiving an unrealistic target from your higher-ups. Pour one out, then, for the Google employees who attended an all-hands meeting earlier this month, only to be told that they need to double its serving capacity every six months to meet AI compute demand.

That's according to CNBC, as the news outlet got a look at a presentation reportedly given to employees by Google AI infrastructure chief Amin Vahdat earlier this month. A slide entitled "AI compute demand" informed the team that "Now we must double every six months... the next 1000x in 4-5 years."

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