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GitHub says massive influx of AI-generated code required extra 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage to manage

GitHub adds four million CPU cores and 160PB of storage amid code surge

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GitHub says massive influx of AI-generated code required extra 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage to manage

A surge in agentic artificial intelligence has driven a sixfold year-on-year increase in new code hosted on GitHub. To cope with the resulting workload, the platform installed an extra four million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of data storage across its facilities. The substantial hardware expansion underscores the rising infrastructure pressures created by autonomous coding tools.

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This summary was written by the GPU Data Hub desk from reporting published by Tom's Hardware on 29 Oct 2026, 10:30. Read the full article at the original publisher.

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