DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloud & Hyperscale, Google
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Google inks deal to support nuclear uprates at Georgia Power's Vogtle and Hatch plants
Will add 96MW of additional capacity across the two plants
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Google-backed battery storage pilot in Texas demonstrates how BESS can improve hourly carbon-free matching for data centers
Pilot undertaken by Quintrace, esVolta, and LevelTen Energy
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Google inks multi-million ton carbon removal deal with ERW firm Terradot
The hyperscaler's largest carbon removal deal to date
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Google considers data center development in New Mexico
Search giant looking at first facility in the Land of Enchantment
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Google inks one million ton carbon removal deal with Mitti Labs in India
Credits generated by the company's methane-reduction projects in the rice farming sector
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Google-Blackstone's TPU neocloud named Crux AI, hires Meta's data center engineering head Alan Duong
Plans hiring spree ahead of 2GW/year ramp
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Google and Blackstone JV experiences delays in data center projects - report
Project Braid hits some snags but executives say it is making "strong progress"
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Google pledges €13bn investment in digital infrastructure in Finland
Will span a two-year period
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Google signs nuclear PPA with Fortum in Loviisa, Finland
The company's first nuclear PPA outside of the US market
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Google partners with MN8, Eos on West Virginia solar + storage project
Part of Google's efforts to commercialize long-duration storage technology
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Google inks 396MW geothermal PPA with Fervo in Utah
Largest geothermal offtake to date in the sector
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Google names 28 startups as part of second AI for Energy Accelerator program
Selects 12 companies in the US and 16 in Europe
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Verizon touts latest Google Cloud AI stack use
More AI for customer interactions and network control
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Google reveals it is behind 506-acre Project Clydesdale data center in Oklahoma
Project will be located in Owasso
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Google rumored to have partnered with AMD on TPU v10, as shipments of current generations revised down - report
Details disclosed in a report from research firm SemiAnalysis
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Google launches $6m R&D intiative for carbon removal, superpollutant abatement
Will offer funding to a range of carbon removal technologies
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Google announces three new cable projects in the Americas
Trio to land in the Dominican Republic, alongside a new branch of Firmina
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Google chief scientist Jeff Dean departs, Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO
Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals also departing
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Man found trapped underneath elevator in Google data center in Iowa, taken to hospital - report
Local fire department said man sustained serious injuries
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Google possible customer of MidAmerican data center in Salix County, Iowa
A 900-acre campus was proposed in June of this year
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Google signs 155MW solar PPA with RWE in Oklahoma
Second PPA Google has signed in the Sooner State this year
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Michigan utility DTE data center pipeline increases to more than 8GW, on the back of deals with Oracle and Google
Announces expansion to its five-year capital investment plan to support power delivery
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NOAA selects Google Cloud for HPC infrastructure to predict weather patterns
Will provide cloud-based compute for the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System
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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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Google grows TPU stash by ~$7bn in last year
As company seeks to increasingly sell TPUs, not just lease them
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Google lands Nuvem subsea cable in Portugal
Cable links Sines with Myrtle Beach in South Carolina
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Google Cloud experiences outage after power and cooling failure in Netherlands data center
Issues lasted for almost 15 hours
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Google files for two data centers in Vernon, Texas
Combined investment of $1bn in facilities