Google Cloud Growth Surges 82% Amid Internal Compute Trade-Offs
Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy discussed Google Cloud's massive 82% year-over-year revenue growth, reaching nearly $25 billion. Pichai noted that Google's cloud business regularly foregoes short-term revenues in order to prioritize compute capacity for frontier AI research.
“our cloud business is at any given moment in time foregoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development.”
Sundar Pichai
“Google Cloud Platform grew 82% this past quarter.”
Alex Kantrowitz
Heard on Big Technology Podcast — “Google’s Potential, AI Money Spigot Shutting?, PHP Bug & Cybersecurity’s “Black October””, published Friday, October 23, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.