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by oaktowner 3322 days ago
According to this article[0] (that someone referenced below):

A Cloud Spanner “node” isn't a physical machine, per se. It is an allocation of compute capacity and disk access throughput on a set of machines with access to the storage API.

(disclosure: I work at Google Cloud but not on Spanner)

[0] https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner

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Cloud Bigtable is similar.