# Google releases dynamic TPU slicing on GKE

_Published Monday, November 9, 2026 at 8:38 AM EST · AI, Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Google has made dynamic slicing generally available on Google Kubernetes Engine, allowing TPU capacity to be assembled or partitioned for different workloads without deleting and recreating nodepools. Google reports up to 5x faster job startup and up to 4.5x faster recovery compared with static TPU slice nodepools.

The system connects pre-provisioned TPU cubes through optical circuit switching to form larger slices, or divides cubes into smaller slices for concurrent jobs. It can also schedule work on healthy partitions within partially faulty infrastructure.

Dynamic slicing is available in all regions offering TPUs, but exclusively through TPU All Capacity under reservation mode. Customers must first provision capacity into nodepools of 16 VMs each.

## Sources

- [Cloud Blog](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-dynamic-slicing-on-tpus/)

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