Cohomological dimension of $G \times G$

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This is a follow-up to my previous question, but asks a much simpler one:

Let $cd$ denote the cohomological dimension of a group, i.e. the minimal length of a projective resolution of $\mathbb{Z}$ over the group ring.

Is is true for every group $G$ of finite cohomological dimension that $$cd(G \times G) \stackrel{?}{>} cd(G )$$