Limited information but it looks like google is trying to enter the HCI market. Personally I don’t see this as a huge threat as I don’t think most people will want to be vendor limited to google for cloud. We shall see.
Now, Google is going a step further, by building custom-designed computers—which combine server, storage and networking functions—for a handful of large customers to run in private data centers, according to two people with knowledge of the project
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cloud-tests-d…