Google tells employees they need to double their work every 6 months to keep
up with AI

Date:
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:03:00 +0000

Description:
Google wants to double AI capacity every six months, but it wants to keep a
lid on cost and power consumption.

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Googles AI and Infrastructure VP, Amin Vahdat, has reportedly warned
employees that the company must double serving capacity every six months in order to keep up with demand for AI tools .

CNBC reported the news hit staff in a company all-hands, during which Vahdat revealed that Google would need to scale the next 1000x in 4-5 years.

Vahdat noted all of this was needed while maintaining the same cost and power consumption, spelling out a challenging future of both colossal capacity increases and equally mighty efficienty improvements.

Google needs to double AI progress every six months

Vahdat explained the 1000x scale, targeted for around the end of the decade, would need to come at essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level.

Clearly, the roadmap consists of multiple elements. Google continues to work
on expanding its infrastructure, like AI and cloud data centers, but its also rolling out more of its own hardware (like TPUs) to reduce reliance on third-party companies. Nvidia has profited hugely from that, for instance.

Googles seventh-generation TPU, Ironwood, claims a 30x power efficiency boost over 2018 models.

And on those third-party concerns, many Nvidia chips are being flagged as
sold out, per The Verge , which has slowed down some rollouts across the industry, including Googles own AI features.

Separately, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has also warned 2026 would be intense
due to AI competition and compute demand. Google has publicly acknowledged AI bubble concerns, but Pichai deems underinvesting in AI even riskier.

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