TPU locations

Accelerators, such as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), are specialized hardware components that can significantly speed up machine learning and high performance computing workloads. When you create Compute Engine (VM) instances or other resources on Google Cloud, you can attach accelerators to them. For an overview of these accelerators, see the Cloud TPU documentation.

The availability of specific TPU models varies by region and zone. This document provides a comprehensive list of accelerator availability to help you plan your deployments and select the appropriate locations for your resources.

This document focuses on accelerator availability for Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and AI Hypercomputer. If you use TPUs with other Google Cloud services, accelerator availability might differ. For those services, see the following documentation:

Zones that support TPUs

Google Cloud offers TPU resources in multiple locations worldwide. These locations consist of the standard regions and zones, which you can read about on the Regions and zones page. Each zone offers a variety of TPU versions. When you create resources that use accelerators—such as Compute Engine instances or GKE node pools—you must select a zone where that accelerator type is available.

AI and standard zones

TPUs are also available in AI zones. These Google Cloud locations are specifically designed to house resources for large-scale AI and machine learning workloads. AI zones offer access to large configurations of the latest TPUs, and might also offer other non-accelerator machine types to support the primary AI and machine learning workloads that run on the accelerators. To learn more about these specialized zones, see About AI zones. To view accelerator availability by zone type, use the Select a zone type filter.

TPU availability

The following sortable table lets you select different options to see where TPU resources are available. You can search by location, or TPU type.

Zone Location Zone type TPU type
asia-east1-c Changhua County, Taiwan, APAC Standard   • v2-8
asia-northeast1-b Tokyo, Japan, APAC Standard   • v6e (Trillium)
europe-west4-a Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe Standard   • v6e (Trillium)
  • v3-8
  • v3-32
  • v3-64
  • v3-128
  • v3-256
  • v3-512
  • v3-1024
  • v3-2048
  • v2-8
  • v2-32
  • v2-128
  • v2-256
  • v2-512
europe-west4-b Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe Standard   • v5p
  • v5e
southamerica-west1-a Santiago, Chile, South America Standard   • v6e (Trillium)
us-central1-a Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America Standard   • v5p
  • v5e
  • v3-8
  • v2-32
  • v2-128
  • v2-256
  • v2-512
us-central1-b Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America Standard   • v6e (Trillium)
  • v3-8
  • v2-8
us-central1-c Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America Standard   • v2-8
  • TPU7x (Ironwood)
us-central2-b Tulsa, Oklahoma, North America Standard   • v4
us-east1-d Moncks Corner, South Carolina, North America Standard   • v6e (Trillium)
us-east5-a Columbus, Ohio, North America Standard   • v6e (Trillium)
  • v5p
us-east5-b Columbus, Ohio, North America Standard   • v6e (Trillium)
us-south1-a Dallas, Texas, North America Standard   • v5e
us-south1-ai1b Dallas, Texas, North America AI zone   • v6e (Trillium)
us-west1-c The Dalles, Oregon, North America Standard   • v5e
us-west4-a Las Vegas, Nevada, North America Standard   • v5e

Feature availability by region and zone

In addition to the availability of specific accelerator models, some related features and configurations have their own regional or zonal restrictions. The following sections outline the availability for these specific features.

Future reservations in calendar mode and Flex-start VMs

Future reservations in calendar mode and TPU Flex-start VMs are only available in specific zones.

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