Oracle to Offer Google TPUs Through OCI in 2027
Oracle Corporation and Google Cloud announced in a press release that Google Tensor Processing Units will become available through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in 2027. OCI will be the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google to offer the chips.
Oracle will provide the power, cooling, and data center networking needed to deploy the TPUs. Customers will be able to use them for model training, post training, and inference workloads, including reasoning, agent, and long context applications.
The offering will include Google's eighth generation TPU portfolio. TPU 8t is designed for training and provides nearly three times the compute performance per pod of the previous generation, while TPU 8i is designed for inference. Oracle plans to expand availability over several years.
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