279: The Cloud Pod Glows With Excitement Over Google Nuclear Deal
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Welcome to episode 279 of The Cloud Pod!
This week Justin, Jonathan, and Matthew are your guides through the cloud. From BigQuery to Google Nuclear power plans, and everything in between, we've got you covered in episode 279!
Highlights from the Episode:
OpenAI’s Newest Possible Threat: Ex-CTO Murati
2:00 📢 Jonathan – “I kind wonder what will these other startups bring that’s different than what OpenAI are doing or Anthropic or anybody else. I mean, they’re all going to be taking the same training data sets because that’s what’s available. It’s not like they’re going to invent some data from somewhere else and have an edge. I mean, I guess they could do different things like be mindful about licensing.”
Introducing New 48vCPU and 60vCPU Optimized Premium Droplets on DigitalOcean
6:02 📢 Justin – “I’ve been watching the CloudPod hosting bill slowly creep up over the years as we get more and more data into S3 and we have logs that we store and things like that for the website. And I have other websites that I host there too. it originally started on DigitalOcean and it was a very flat rate for that VM that I need. You start sort of thinking like, maybe Amazon is great for this use case.”
Cross-zone enabled Network Load Balancer now supports zonal shift and zonal autoshift
19:57 📢 Justin – “I like just to do that off my health checks, not off AWS telling them, but I appreciate the effort because when you do run into these type of AZ specific issues, they can be a bit of a pain to identify quickly. If Amazon can identify they have a problem and route your traffic for you, that is a great upgrade.”
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Google Nuclear Deal
Google recently announced a new nuclear clean energy agreement with Kairos Power, marking a significant step towards sustainable and eco-friendly power solutions. Matthew shared his perspective, stating, “I’m waiting for these cloud providers to vertically aggregate now and become power companies for their own things and their own little generators. Now they have five little nuclear sites on each data center, and that’s their power. And they’re essentially off-grid except for the internet.”
Database Center — your AI-powered, unified fleet management solution
This strategic move by Google showcases a commitment to environmental responsibility and innovative energy solutions.
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Gain control of your Google Cloud costs: Introducing the Cost Attribution Solution
