Cloud honcho at Google says they need to double capacity every six months

Google needs to reach 1000x capacity in the next 4-5 years, they say at an all hands meeting.
Google is not immune to the ever increasing demand on AI infrastructure. (Picture: generated)
The demand for AI infrastructure is «the most critical and also the most expensive part of the AI race,» said Vice President at Google Cloud, Amin Vahdat, at a recent all hands meeting, reported by CNBC.

This comes as almost every other Big Tech company is increasing data center spending and Google has set aside $93 billion in «capital expenditures» this year to do the same.

This will be followed by a «significant increase» in 2026, but likely not matching OpenAI’s enormous $1.4 trillion data center spending.

They are aiming to «spend a lot,» and hit «the next 1000x in 4-5 years,» Vahdat is reported to have said.

That’s one thousand times more «capability, compute and storage networking» that he aims to add for «essentially the same cost, power and energy spend.»

Read more: The scoop at CNBC, writeups at Ars Technica and Gizmodo.