The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - Europe, Google
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Google buys 56 hectares in Hamina, Finland, amid ongoing issues over Muhos tree-felling
Finnish firm Tekova plans 50MW data center in Perho, SRV backs out of 40MW project in Eura
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Finnish police open criminal investigation into Google over reported mass tree felling at data center site
Google said it will "cooperate with the investigation"
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Google ordered to suspend site work at two data centers in Finland following tree clearing controversy
An estimated 250,000 trees were cleared at its Muhos site
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Google experiences "service disruption" in UK cloud region
Number of banks report issues
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Google's EMEA energy team hiring for range of new positions
Further opportunities in the energy space at Google
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Google's €13bn data center buildout in Finland under investigation for 300-hectare forest removal
Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority requests reports from local municipalities
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Google's head of data center global design and construction joins Anthropic
John M. Wilson to head EMEA capacity delivery
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Google receives planning permission to expand data center in Dublin, Ireland
An Coimisiún Pleanála greenlights plans
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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's European energy and infrastructure principle joins Mistral Compute
Marc Oman joins as AI firm looks to deploy 1GW
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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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Former Microsoft researcher launches data center robotics startup
Exclaim Robotics secures $4.95m in pre-seed funding to build first bots
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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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UK Treasury designates big four US hyperscalers as "Critical Third Parties"
Will bring Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Oracle under direct regulatory oversight
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European fusion company Proxima raises €411m with backing from Google
Latest fusion company to secure backing from the tech giant
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Google, Energy Dome to develop 23MW energy storage project in Rhode, Ireland
Expected to come online in 2028
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Railway taps Claude to design a data center
Assists with company's "Gen 2" sites roll out
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Google breaks ground on data center in Horndal, Sweden
Will be company's first owned and operated data center in the country
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Google buys land in Santander, Spain, for cable landing station
New CLS to support Sol cable
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Google launches second startup accelerator for AI and energy firms
Backed by more than 20 partner companies
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Google deploys AI-powered platform to support water sustainability in Belgium
Partners with Agua Segura and Agrow Analytics on initative
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OCP members tout DC power in the data center to meet growing AI energy demands
Low voltage direct current project targets more efficient servers
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Google breaks ground on data center in Kronstorf, Austria
Facility will support heat recovery and have rooftop solar panels
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Data center lobby secured EU provision to keep environmental impact data confidential - report
Includes the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta
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Google takes up capacity at Nscale data center in West London, UK - report
Separate to the recently dropped Nscale site by OpenAI
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Google presses ahead with plans for first data center in France
Environmental inquiry set to be launched into the project