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> IBM is dead until it gets Z mainframes and Power servers in big a three data center (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Google is using POWER9 servers in their data centers:

> https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head...

> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/03/26/google-and-its-hyper...

Of course, most of their servers are still x86; as far as I am aware, the reason why Google also uses POWER9 servers is that they don't want to be too dependent on the two manufacturers of x86 CPUs.



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