GitHub expands infrastructure as agent-written commits grow fivefold

AIGitHub recorded 7.38 billion commits in September 2026, more than five times the figure a year earlier. This year it has added 4 million CPU cores, 160 PB of high-speed storage and 50 Tb/s of network capacity to handle agent-written code.

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Rohan Paul

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Agenetic economy is taking over.

GitHub recorded 7.38 B commits in Sept-2026, more than 5 times the figure a year earlier.

And up to now this year, GitHub has added 4M CPU cores, 160PB of high-speed storage and 50Tb/s of network capacity to absorb a flood of agent-written code.

That curve already outran GitHub’s hardware once, when a traffic surge knocked out authentication, Actions, pull requests and Copilot for 7 hours and 47 minutes on 17 August.

GitHub is now moving to a multi-region Azure deployment, due to finish early next year, and rebuilding Git to decouple storage from compute.

Satya Nadella@satyanadella

We're redefining the SDLC for the agentic era. Lots of GitHub updates this morning at Universe: • GitHub Copilot Fusion delivers frontier-level quality, 40% faster and at up to 77% lower cost • Our unified Copilot harness is now in Foundry, a managed service for building long-running agents that reason, use tools, and get work done • Copilot Projects gives you an orchestration loop to build with multiple agents across repos And we’re expanding capacity and strengthening GitHub’s architecture to make the home of agentic development more resilient.

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Rohan Paul · x.comPublished Oct 28, 1:22 PM ET · added here 1:39 PM ET

Original title: Agenetic economy is taking over.

GitHub expands infrastructure as agent-written commits grow fivefold

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