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

GitHub said at its Universe conference that it handled 7.4 billion commits in September, about five times the volume of a year earlier, driven largely by AI agents, and that the load has caused repeated outages. It reports adding four million CPU cores, 160 petabytes of high-speed storage and more Actions capacity. It is also separating compute from storage, which internal benchmarks suggest could raise write throughput up to 35x, and expects its multi-region Azure migration to finish early next year. These figures are GitHub's own and unverified.