Google Cloud launches Rubin-powered A5X instances scaling to 80,000 GPUs per site
Beth_Kindig · x · 2026-10-30
Google Cloud is launching new Rubin-powered A5X instances, scaling to up to 80,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs in a single-site cluster and up to 960,000 GPUs in a multisite cluster, leveraging Google's Virgo networking.
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