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Google prioritizes AGI over cloud customers in deployment of its own AI chips
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Fusion42 · 23 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Google is allocating its TPU capacity first to internal AGI development, then to cloud customers, whilst reporting negative free cash flow for the first time since 2004 due to record infrastructure spend ($195-205bn forecast). The company is leasing external capacity to bridge demand gaps until new hardware arrives.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure and Cloud Infrastructure, and 2 sources have reported it.
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If you sell to Google Cloud for AI workloads, you're now second in the queue for their chips - they're keeping the best capacity for themselves and leasing from third-party providers to fill the gap. That lease market is open, and so is Google's demand for external GPU time until their new fabs are ready.
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