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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“Jeff Dean does the math, and figures out if people use this for (I don’t know call it) three minutes a day and we roll it out to all billion Android phones, we’re going to need twice the number of data centers that we currently have across all of Google just to handle it.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…Totally. There’s the inefficiency of it, but then there’s also the business problem of, wait a minute. It looks like we’re just going to be shipping hundreds of millions soon to be billions of dollars over to NVIDIA every year for the foreseeable future. There’s this amazing moment right after Google rolls out speech recognition—their latest use case for neural nets—just on Nexus phones. Because again, they don’t have the infrastructure to support it on all Android phones. It becomes a super popular feature. Jeff Dean does the math, and figures out if people use this for (I don’t know call it) three minutes a day and we roll it out to all billion Android phones, we’re going to need twice the number of data centers that we currently have across all of Google just to handle it. Just for this feature.…
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