diff --git a/dockers/tpu-tests/tpu_test_cases.jsonnet b/dockers/tpu-tests/tpu_test_cases.jsonnet
index bf2aab9317fcf..e2fdeac6a0f02 100644
--- a/dockers/tpu-tests/tpu_test_cases.jsonnet
+++ b/dockers/tpu-tests/tpu_test_cases.jsonnet
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ local tputests = base.BaseTest {
           profilers/test_xla_profiler.py \
           accelerators/test_tpu.py \
           models/test_tpu.py \
-          plugins/environments/test_xla_environment.py
+          plugins/environments/test_xla_environment.py \
+          utilities/test_xla_device_utils.py
       test_exit_code=$?
       echo "\n||| END PYTEST LOGS |||\n"
       coverage xml
diff --git a/src/pytorch_lightning/CHANGELOG.md b/src/pytorch_lightning/CHANGELOG.md
index 340b6ae15e2ce..5015582ded220 100644
--- a/src/pytorch_lightning/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/src/pytorch_lightning/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 - Removed deprecated `get_progress_bar_dict` property from `LightningModule` ([#12839](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/12839))
 
+
 - Removed sanity check for multi-optimizer support with habana backends ([#13217](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/13217))
 
 
@@ -302,6 +303,13 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Removed deprecated `LightningModule.on_post_move_to_device` ([#13548](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning/pull/13548))
 
 
+- Removed `TPUSpawnStrategy.{tpu_local_core_rank,tpu_global_core_rank}` attributes in favor of `TPUSpawnStrategy.{local_rank,global_rank}` ([#11163](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11163))
+
+
+- Removed `SingleTPUStrategy.{tpu_local_core_rank,tpu_global_core_rank}` attributes in favor of `SingleTPUStrategy.{local_rank,global_rank}`([#11163](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11163))
+
+
+
 ### Fixed
 
 
diff --git a/src/pytorch_lightning/strategies/single_tpu.py b/src/pytorch_lightning/strategies/single_tpu.py
index e65078efc67ee..e24f3a6732570 100644
--- a/src/pytorch_lightning/strategies/single_tpu.py
+++ b/src/pytorch_lightning/strategies/single_tpu.py
@@ -44,10 +44,7 @@ def __init__(
             checkpoint_io=checkpoint_io,
             precision_plugin=precision_plugin,
         )
-
         self.debug = debug
-        self.tpu_local_core_rank = 0
-        self.tpu_global_core_rank = 0
 
     @property
     def is_distributed(self) -> bool:
@@ -63,9 +60,6 @@ def setup(self, trainer: "pl.Trainer") -> None:
         if self.debug:
             os.environ["PT_XLA_DEBUG"] = str(1)
 
-        self.tpu_local_core_rank = xm.get_local_ordinal()
-        self.tpu_global_core_rank = xm.get_ordinal()
-
     @classmethod
     def register_strategies(cls, strategy_registry: Dict) -> None:
         strategy_registry.register(
diff --git a/src/pytorch_lightning/strategies/tpu_spawn.py b/src/pytorch_lightning/strategies/tpu_spawn.py
index 8f818a34bfcc7..178fe638cc0a3 100644
--- a/src/pytorch_lightning/strategies/tpu_spawn.py
+++ b/src/pytorch_lightning/strategies/tpu_spawn.py
@@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ def __init__(
             precision_plugin=precision_plugin,
         )
         self.debug = debug
-        self.tpu_local_core_rank = 0
-        self.tpu_global_core_rank = 0
         self.start_method = "fork"
 
     @property
@@ -152,12 +150,6 @@ def process_dataloader(self, dataloader: DataLoader) -> MpDeviceLoader:
     def configure_ddp(self) -> None:
         pass
 
-    def init_dist_connection(self, global_rank: int, world_size: int) -> None:
-        pass
-
-    def set_world_ranks(self, process_idx: int = 0) -> None:
-        pass
-
     def model_to_device(self) -> None:
         self.model = self.wrapped_model.to(self.root_device)
 
@@ -203,9 +195,7 @@ def reduce(self, output, group: Optional[Any] = None, reduce_op: Optional[Union[
 
     def _worker_setup(self, process_idx: int):
         reset_seed()
-        self._local_rank = xm.get_local_ordinal()
-        self.tpu_local_core_rank = xm.get_local_ordinal()
-        self.tpu_global_core_rank = xm.get_ordinal()
+        self.set_world_ranks(process_idx)
         rank_zero_only.rank = self.global_rank
 
     def validation_step(self, *args, **kwargs) -> Optional[STEP_OUTPUT]:
@@ -237,7 +227,7 @@ def _pod_progress_bar_force_stdout(self) -> None:
         # from different vms to the main worker doesn't work well with tqdm
         # Ref: https://github.com/pytorch/xla/blob/master/torch_xla/distributed/xla_dist.py#L140
         # The print statement seems to force tqdm to flush stdout.
-        if self.tpu_global_core_rank == 0 and int(os.getenv(xenv.TPUVM_MODE, 0)) == 1:
+        if self.global_rank == 0 and int(os.getenv(xenv.TPUVM_MODE, 0)) == 1:
             print()
 
     def save_checkpoint(
@@ -276,6 +266,10 @@ def all_gather(self, tensor: Tensor, group: Optional[Any] = None, sync_grads: bo
             tensor = tensor.unsqueeze(0)
         return xm.all_gather(tensor)
 
+    def teardown(self) -> None:
+        super().teardown()
+        os.environ.pop("PT_XLA_DEBUG", None)
+
     @classmethod
     def register_strategies(cls, strategy_registry: Dict) -> None:
         strategy_registry.register(
@@ -287,7 +281,3 @@ def register_strategies(cls, strategy_registry: Dict) -> None:
             cls,
             description=f"{cls.__class__.__name__}",
         )
-
-    def teardown(self) -> None:
-        super().teardown()
-        os.environ.pop("PT_XLA_DEBUG", None)