GoKawiilGitHub adds 4M CPU cores, 160PB storage to handle AI-driven code surge
GitHub reported that over the past year it expanded its infrastructure by 4 million CPU cores, 160 petabytes of storage, and 50 Tb/s of networking capacity to cope with a surge in AI-generated code activity. The company said code commits grew sixfold and merged pull requests quadrupled year-over-year, with monthly commits rising from 1.4 billion in April to 7.4 billion by September, and total pushes over the past 12 months exceeding the combined totals of 2024 and 2025.
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GitHub attributes the growth to agentic AI tools, noting that over 40% of pull requests were started by an agent by September, up from 17% in March, suggesting AI coding assistants are becoming deeply embedded in software development workflows. This scale of automated contribution could strain CI/CD pipelines and testing infrastructure industry-wide, and may force other code platforms and developer tool providers to similarly rearchitect for AI-scale throughput.
- GitHub added 4 million CPU cores, 160PB storage, and 50 Tb/s networking in a year to handle AI-driven code growth.
- Monthly commits rose from 1.4 billion in April to 7.4 billion in September, with total pushes topping 2024 and 2025 combined.
- Over 40% of pull requests were agent-initiated by September, up from 17% in March, per GitHub's report.
Source: tomshardware.com — Bruno Ferreira, 2026-10-29
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