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> One pod of TPU 8t is 121 ExaFlops; or 121,000 PetaFlops.

Meanwhile, the compute capacity of the top 10 supercomputers in the entire world is 11,487 Petaflops.[1]

I know, I know, not the same flops, yada yada, but still. Just 1 pod alone is quite a beast.

Edit: [1] https://top500.org/lists/top500/2025/11/

Not only not the same size, 4-bit flops versus 64-bit flops, but not the same programmability either. the TPUs can do just matrix-multiplications and some supporting math.

Otherwise bitcoin mining rigs dwarf everything, if you just want to count raw operations per second.

Other than TPUs they're also planning for 960,000 Rubin GPUs [1] which can do 33 teraflops fp64 each, so over 30 classical exaflops, and with emulation it could be more than 100 exaflops.

[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/google-cloud-agentic-physical-...

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