DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Google Cloud
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Google to double cloud capacity in Brazil in through 2030
Executives provide details on the expansion of data centers as well as the arrival of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in the country
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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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Anthropic signed $517bn in compute agreements in past 11 months
Represents 14.8GW of compute capacity
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Santee Cooper partners with Google Cloud to roll out AI-driven load forecasting and financial planning tools
Will deploy both WeatherNext2 and Gemini Enterprise
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Verizon touts latest Google Cloud AI stack use
More AI for customer interactions and network control
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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 developing new chip to run Gemini AI model more efficiently – report
The hardware, dubbed Frozen v2, is slated for launch in 2028
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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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FBI considers deploying AI LLM supercomputers with Nvidia B300 GPUs or Google TPUs
Could deploy multiple systems, from training to inference
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Google Cloud names Hussein Shel to lead oil & gas unit
Moves over from AWS
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Intesa Sanpaolo Group migrates core IT systems to Google Cloud
Adopts Google regions in TIM data centers in Italy
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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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AI lab Ineffable Intelligence taps Google Cloud for compute
Will use large cluster of A5X instances
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Google set to shutter CBRS SAS management service
Has stopped taking on new customers and plans to close the platform next year
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Belgium's Smals selects Google Cloud as primary public cloud provider
Smals will integrate Google Cloud with existing on-prem infrastructure
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Apple's Private Cloud Compute to run on Google Cloud
Apple turns to Nvidia GPUs with 'confidential computing' for inference
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Google Cloud suffers network disruptions after fire at third-party data center in India
Fire saw emergency power shutdown at the facility
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Google to pay $920 million to SpaceX-xAI monthly for AI data center capacity
Will see the hyperscaler lease 110,000 GPUs
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Telefónica and Google Cloud partner for Spanish sovereign cloud
And other sovereign cloud news
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Thales and Google Cloud partner for sovereign cloud in Germany
Companies have a similar offering in France
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Blackstone and Google team up for $5bn TPU-based cloud platform
Will enable customers to access TPUs via a different platform from Google Cloud
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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 to sell TPUs to a "select group of customers" for their data centers, increases capex forecast
Company sees strong Q1 for FY2026
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Google breaks ground on $15bn data center project in India
Groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 28
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Google unveils eighth-generation TPUs, two dedicated training and inference chips
“Purpose-build architectures” designed to support model training and inference workloads