coffeesippingbastard t1_itwzxb8 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 10:31 PM

Reply to comment by Riptide360 in Alphabet is ramping up scrutiny of all its projects and cutting hiring in half as it tries to curb costs by chrisdh79

I was surprised that GCP is losing 600mil/quarter. Either they have crazy scaling happening or something terrible is happening cost wise.

rabbit994 t1_iu2ryve wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:04 AM

> I was surprised that GCP is losing 600mil/quarter. Either they have crazy scaling happening or something terrible is happening cost wise.

Datacenter build out and massive discounts to major companies to sign them up. I worked at a company that was dragged into GCP by our CTO and part of the reason was massive discount GCP gave us. Generally everything was half off list price with some stuff higher than that.