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Sundar Pichai stated that machine learning compute has become acutely constrained despite capital spending reaching $175 billion to $185 billion. Sundar Pichai tracks team compute usage directly each week while memory capacity limits and labor shortages cap physical expansion.
Data center construction faces shortages in qualified electricians.
“You can't find a number of electricians we would need…”
Long-term infrastructure exploration includes research into orbital data centers in space.
“We're in the earliest stages of thinking about data centers in space…”
From Sundar Pichai on Google's Space, Quantum, and Robotics Bets
Robotics initiatives launched before underlying software capabilities existed to support them.
“Robotics is an area where we were too early as a company before…”
From Sundar Pichai on Google's Space, Quantum, and Robotics Bets
Machine learning compute has entered an acutely constrained era. Sundar Pichai reviews project and team compute units during a dedicated hour every week.
“ML compute, we've gone through phases where they've been easy, and then there have been phases where we've been constrained as a company. But now it is really acutely constrained.”
“I at least spend a dedicated hour a week thinking about that question at a pretty granular level. I will know by projects and by teams, the compute units they are using, or at least I have that information, and I'm looking at it and assessing it.”
Capital spending projected between $175 billion and $185 billion meets hard boundaries because leading memory companies cannot dramatically improve capacity.
“We have said it'll be between 175 and 185…”
“There is no way that the leading memory companies are going to dramatically improve their capacity…”
Sundar Pichai emphasizes disciplined early technology investments. Technology first reaches a working scale, allowing outside creativity to build applications on top.
“One of the ways we have thought about it and we've been disciplined about, or at least to me, matters a lot, is to make those early technology bets in a deep way…”
“History of technology is you get something to a scale where it works, and then you use it and people's creativity on the top finds the application…”
From Sundar Pichai on Google's Space, Quantum, and Robotics Bets
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