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Google is investing $646.4 million in the construction of a new data center in Skien, Norway. The company acquired some 200 hectares of land in Gromstul area of Skien, around 85 miles southwest of Oslo, around 2019. This is the company’s first data center in Norway.
In 2017, Google announced a commitment to power the company and its data centers entirely on renewable energy. In 2018, Google reached the 100% of their goal.
Apr 26, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Google
Google this week revealed plans to expand its footprint in Indiana with a $2 billion data center in Fort Wayne. It also announced a collaboration with Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M) to add clean energy to the local grid.“We are thrilled to announce our investment in Fort Wayne as the...
Apr 22, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Google
Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees on Wednesday. This comes after a series of internal protests about labor conditions and the company's contract with the Israeli government and military.The protests were led by the "No Tech For Apartheid" organization. One of the protestors ...
Apr 11, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Google
Google has revealed its plans to invest $1 billion in creating two new subsea fiber cable routes between the US and Japan which will be called Proa and Taihei and will be built by Japan's NEC Corp. In a blog post, Google revealed that the investment is in support of Google's Japan Digitizatio...
Apr 08, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Google
Tape Ark has moved a significant collection of tape-based sports video footage to Google Cloud. The cloud ingest of the collection measures over 40 petabytes of video footage. By moving it to the cloud, the broadcaster will be able save time and money on the maintenance of the collection inclu...
Apr 04, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Google
Google has signed more than 1.5GW worth of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in the last 12 months. The company bought this amoung of clean energy through a new PPA procurement process developed in partnership with LevelTen Energy, which has now been released via the energy broker. “LEAP is hel...