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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Charter CFO Jessica Fischer to join Google-Blackstone's TPU neocloud
Set to start in October, will be replaced by Kevin Howard
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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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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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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 increases 2026 capex to $195-205bn as it accelerates AI data center buildout
Record Google Cloud revenue, but investors are uneasy about growing capex commitments
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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
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Google is customer behind 2.7GW data center campus near Cheyenne, Wyoming
Project renamed as "Project Tembo"
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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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Google Cloud names Hussein Shel to lead oil & gas unit
Moves over from AWS
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Google-linked Housebound Group files for two data center projects in Haskell, Texas
Total investment to reach $800 million
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Anthropic signs $19bn, 20-year lease for Kentucky data center with TeraWulf
TeraWulf also sells stake in joint venture with Fluidstack
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Google plans "connectivity hub" in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Will be the first of four hubs in Africa
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Google limits Meta's AI use due to capacity constraints - report
Had to restrict other customers as well
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Asad Malik named head of compute finance & strategy at Anthropic, joins from Google
As company ramps up cloud spend and its own data center infrastructure
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Fire at STT GDC/Tata data center in India caused "extensive damage" - report
Google and others impacted by apparent lithium battery fire
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Google to spend $1.5bn expanding its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama
Investment will span 2026 and 2027