Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
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#2> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and
adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years
Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
Re: Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
#3> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
Googler, opinions are my own. I know nothing about this.
I wonder if this was Google's response to the chip shortage? Maybe the cost/benefit (and just sheer inability to get certain parts) made them hold on to hardware for longer.
Re: Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
#4Net income up 68%, that's terrifying high for a company that size. Good job everyone at Alphabet/Google.
Re: Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
#5> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
I don't think the workloads would have much to do with this, probably saw that they were having less failures than anticipated or memory/chip shortages have them keeping equipment around longer than they planned.
Re: Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
#6> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
My assumption is the hardware was more reliable than expected. If it was about slowing workload growth one might expect them to switch to a usage-based (instead of time-based) depreciation schedule.
Re: Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
#7> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
Seemingly the latter. Less benefit between generations and more stress resistance in hardware compared to earlier data center practice
Re: Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
#8> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
Googler, opinions are my own. I know nothing about this. I wonder if this was Google's response to the chip shortage? Maybe the cost/benefit (and just sheer inability to get certain parts) made them hold on to hardware for longer.
That would be an interesting adjustment
Re: Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
#9Net income up 68%, that's terrifying high for a company that size. Good job everyone at Alphabet/Google.
More like the pandemic is good for pushing activities onto the internet of which Google takes its slice.
Re: Alphabet Third Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
#10Net income up 68%, that's terrifying high for a company that size. Good job everyone at Alphabet/Google.
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