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by akiselev 3492 days ago
They depend on cheap computing in the sense that they only pay for what they use and don't have upfront capex costs but I don't think thats what GP means. Google initially grew by filling data centers with commodity consumer computers instead of "enterprise-grade" servers and now they have cheap computing in the form of ASICs and highly customized/integrated general purpose servers.