The computers took till March 2022 to complete the task after starting in October 2021. It was more than twice as fast at 157 days, compared to 121 days spent working out a shorter number in 2019. According to Iwao, she used the same tools and procedures as before, but the increased speed is owing to how Google Cloud has progressed since then, with 100Gbps networking, balanced Persistent Disks, and other capabilities highlighted in this deep dive into the calculations.
