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:
gcloudcomputetpuslocationslist
EXAMPLES
The following command describes the TPUs running in zoneus-central1-b:
gcloudcomputetpuslocationsdescribeus-central1-b
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
Location resource - The Cloud TPU Location you want to describe. This representsa Cloud resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this groupbut can be set in other ways.

To set theproject attribute:

  • provide the argumentzone on the command line with a fullyspecified name;
  • set the propertycompute/zone with a fully specified name;
  • provide the argument--project on the command line;
  • set the propertycore/project.
[ZONE]
ID of the location or fully qualified identifier for the location.

To set thezone attribute:

  • provide the argumentzone on the command line;
  • set the propertycompute/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 thetpu/v1 API. The full documentation for thisAPI can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/tpu/
NOTES
These variants are also available:
gcloudalphacomputetpuslocationsdescribe
gcloudbetacomputetpuslocationsdescribe

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Last updated 2026-01-21 UTC.