<p>According to <a href="https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/types-zones" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"TPU types and zones"</a> TPUs are only available in a very limited set of regions, namely:</p>

<ul>
<li><strong>Europe, Middle East and Africa</strong>

<ul>
<li>europe-west4-a (Eemshaven, Netherlands)</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Americas</strong>

<ul>
<li>us-central1-a, b, c and f (Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA)</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Asia-Pacific</strong>

<ul>
<li>asia-east1-c (Changhua County, Taiwan)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><em>Note: not every SKU is available in each region, so double check the above page when planning your deployments.</em></p>

<p>In addition to specifying a valid zone, you will need to make sure the <a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/tpu.googleapis.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TPU API</a> is enabled, and your account has the relevant IAM permissions: Cloud TPU\TPU Admin.</p>

<p>At the moment TPUs are predominantly designed for centralised data processing rather than close-to-edge processing. Hence the somewhat limited number of locations TPUs are available within.</p>

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<p>I'my trying to create a tpu for my vm instance <a href="https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/tutorials/transformer-pytorch" rel="nofollow noreferrer">from this tutorial</a> but get this error message:</p>
<pre><code>ERROR: (gcloud.compute.tpus.create) PERMISSION_DENIED: Location europe-west1-b is not found or access is unauthorized.
</code></pre>
<p>I have enabled all of the access the vm can have but i still have this error.</p>

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GCP - Can't create a tpu on europe-west1
lifeguru42
# GCP - Can't create a tpu on europe-west1

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-07)

I'my trying to create a tpu for my vm instance from this tutorial but get this error message:
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.tpus.create) PERMISSION_DENIED: Location europe-west1-b is not found or access is unauthorized.

I have enabled all of the access the vm can have but i still have this error.

**Tags:** google-cloud-platform, gcp, google-compute-engine


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-11-07. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

According to ["TPU types and zones"](https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/types-zones) TPUs are only available in a very limited set of regions, namely:

* **Europe, Middle East and Africa**
  + europe-west4-a (Eemshaven, Netherlands)
* **Americas**
  + us-central1-a, b, c and f (Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA)
* **Asia-Pacific**
  + asia-east1-c (Changhua County, Taiwan)

*Note: not every SKU is available in each region, so double check the above page when planning your deployments.*

In addition to specifying a valid zone, you will need to make sure the [TPU API](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/tpu.googleapis.com) is enabled, and your account has the relevant IAM permissions: Cloud TPU\TPU Admin.

At the moment TPUs are predominantly designed for centralised data processing rather than close-to-edge processing. Hence the somewhat limited number of locations TPUs are available within.


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