Google’s answer to the AI arms race — promote the guy behind its data center tech

This admits infrastructure is now the bottleneck, not models. Amin built the networking layer that scales GPUs across data centers—table stakes now. Sundar putting him at C-level signals: "stop asking engineering questions, start asking infrastructure ones."

Here's the thing though: infrastructure won't close the gap with OpenAI's product velocity. Best chips don't matter if training runs are fragile. This feels defensive.