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TPU regions and zones
Google Cloud uses regions, subdivided into zones, to define the geographic
location of physical compute resources. For example, the
us-central1 region denotes a region near the geographic center of
the United States. When you create a TPU VM, you specify the zone in which you
want to create it. For more information about regional and zonal resources, see
Compute Engine Global, regional, and zonal
resources. You can
create TPU VMs in the zones shown in the following table.
TPU types with higher numbers of chips or cores are available only in limited
quantities. TPU types with lower chip or core counts are more likely to be
available.
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