I think Montreal is a relatively new datacenter (but great for CO2e!). The land purchase was just announced in May, 2021, so with construction and equipment deployment timelines, it may not be fully populated, so mix of hardware there may change.
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Google Cloud Active Assist Scheduler Reduces Carbon Emissions
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Not public lists that I know of, but Cloud users can control which region their work gets scheduled in. The Active Assist scheduler can also be configured to factor CO2e into scheduling decisions, I believe: https://
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Google Cloud Datacenters Carbon Intensity and TPUv4 Sustainability
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Depends on the data center (I actually don't know which one this was filmed in). We report %age of Google carbon free energy as well as Grid carbon intensity
(gCO2eq/kWh) per Cloud datacenter here. Most TPUv4 pods are installed in ones marked "Low CO2" https://
cloud.google.com/sustainability
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Duet AI Workspace productivity features: meeting notes and summaries
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The productivity features in Duet AI on Workspace are pretty great (we've been using them internally for a little while). Automatic meeting notes
Chat thread summaries
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Google TPUv4 Pods: Water Cooling and Dynamic Optical Switching
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A delightful 2m40s tour through one of our TPU datacenters, looking at some things that make the TPUv4 pods special, like water cooling, & custom optical circuit switching that enables dynamic reassembly of up to 64 racks (64 chips each) into different shape supercomputers.
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Google Cloud Next 2026 announcements summary
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A nice summary of some of today's announcements at Google Cloud Next.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud TPU v5e
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Excited to see this announcement about the general availability of our latest Cloud TPU offering, based on the TPU v5e system!
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Google Brain Early Work: Unsupervised Learning and Speech Recognition
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This was a few years into the Google Brain project, so some of my speaking parts describe some of the early Google Brain work on unsupervised learning, scaling of ML training, speech recognition, etc.
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Tech Leaders Reflect on Industry Influence and Cultural Priorities
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Ran across this video of a fireside chat that Urs Hölzle, myself and Eric Brewer did together 9 years ago. I enjoyed the YouTube comment on the video: "Kids spend more time listening to rap songs than to Jeff Dean…we are in such a sad state."
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Token of Appreciation Created for Noam Shazeer
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Just a sec… ""
There… Generated a token of appreciation for my former officemate Noam Shazeer.