gcloud compute tpus locations describe

NAME

gcloud compute tpus locations describe - describe a Cloud TPU Location

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute tpus locations describe [ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

Describe a Cloud TPU Location. To get a list of available locations for your project run:

gcloud compute tpus locations list

EXAMPLES

The following command describes the TPUs running in zone us-central1-b:

gcloud compute tpus locations describe us-central1-b

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

Location resource - The Cloud TPU Location you want to describe. This represents a Cloud resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but can be set in other ways. To set the project attribute:

provide the argument zone on the command line with a fully specified name;
set the property compute/zone with a fully specified name;
provide the argument --project on the command line;
set the property core/project.

[ZONE]

ID of the location or fully qualified identifier for the location. To set the zone attribute:

provide the argument zone on the command line;
set the property compute/zone.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

API REFERENCE

This command uses the tpu/v1 API. The full documentation for this API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/

NOTES

These variants are also available:

gcloud alpha compute tpus locations describe

gcloud beta compute tpus locations describe

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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.