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(I'm an employee, with clear biases)

Precisely this. Large scale infrastructure growth also costs quite a bit, especially when you pay for your own network and other works in progress https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/



No, that doesn't explain it. Some cost has to be going up by much more than 22%. Headcount only went up 16% - ie. from 62k to 72k.


Market rate for engineers has outpaced inflation for some time. That accounts for some of that gap.




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