# GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/github-powering-up-four-million-extra-cores-to-stop-its-service-going-down/
- Published: 2026-10-28T16:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T16:54:43+00:00
- Original publisher: The Register
- Original article: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/28/github-powering-up-four-million-extra-cores-to-stop-its-service-going-down/5305863
- Topics: AI, Business, Markets, Technology

## Key points

- GitHub plans four million extra CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage.
- September commits reached 7.4 billion, five times the year-earlier level.
- A new architecture aims to deliver 35 times more throughput.

## Summary

GitHub is adding four million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of high-speed storage as it rebuilds its infrastructure to handle a surge in AI-generated code and avoid further outages. The changes matter because the service’s reliability has suffered as developers use AI agents to produce and commit far more code.

GitHub recorded 7.4 billion commits in September 2026, five times the total from a year earlier. The company says it is separating compute from storage to enable 35 times more throughput and moving to a multi-region Azure deployment, due to be completed early next year; it is also adding capacity for GitHub Actions.

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