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Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools

Westinghouse Electric Company is teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI for the construction of nuclear reactors. Under the agreement with Google, Westinghouse will combine its existing HiVE and bertha nuclear AI solutions with Google Cloud technologies to help improve both the construction of...

July 17, 2025

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Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD

Google has won a contract valued up to $200 million with the US Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Intelligence Office (CDAO) to provide infrastructure for AI. Under the contract with Google Public Sector, the DoD can access Google's cloud infrastructure, including its tensor proc...

July 16, 2025

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Allianz Acquires Stake in Yondr

Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has announced tthat its subsidiary Allianz Capital Partners GmbH has acquired a minority stake in Yondr Group, joining DigitalBridge and La Caisse (formerly CDPQ) as investors in the firm. The stake was acquired on behalf of the Allianz insurance companies ...

July 16, 2025

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Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

Frontier, a carbon credit purchasing consortium that counts Google and Meta as founding members, this week announced it has facilitated $1.75 million of carbon removal purchases from Karbonetiq (United States), Limenet (Italy), and pHathom (Canada) on behalf of buyers Stripe, Shopify, and Goog...

July 15, 2025

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Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Renewable this week announced a first-of-its-kind Hydro Framework Agreement (HFA) with Google to deliver up to 3,000MW of carbon-free hydroelectric capacity across the United States.Under the agreement, hydroelectric assets will be relicensed, overhau...

July 14, 2025

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Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomput...

July 12, 2025

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Yondr Completes 40MW Frankfurt Data Center

Data center firm Yondr Group this week announced that its 40MW data center in Bischofsheim, just south of Frankfurt, is now fully operational. The site includes a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on the roof, a green wall, and electric vehicle charging points. Yondr said it has also comple...

July 12, 2025

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Google Cloud Signs Agreement with UK gov't to Reduce Legacy Tech Reliance

Google Cloud and the UK government are teaming up to tackle the UK's reliance on legacy IT as both parties hope to save taxpayer money by replacing old technology. Google has also teamed up with the Imperial War Museum to digitize and transcribe its oral history collection, and is working with...

July 11, 2025

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Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations...

July 04, 2025

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Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational operations.R...

July 03, 2025

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Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is o...

July 01, 2025

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Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway...

June 30, 2025

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Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

Microsoft has signed yet another carbon removal deal, this time buying carbon removal credits from forestry projects in the US with Anew Climate and sister company Aurora Sustainable Lands. Both companies announced a 10-year agreement to deliver 4.8 million nature-based carbon removal credits ...

June 26, 2025

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Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia

Google has spent $14 million to buy a plot of land for a data center development in Botetourt County, Virginia. The deal for the 312-acre site at the Botetourt Center industrial park, Greenfield, was announced on Tuesday.“We are always looking for communities that have the innovative and colla...

June 26, 2025

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IGM Financial Migrates Services to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

Canadian wealth and asset management company IGM Financial has completed a data center migration project to the public cloud and is now using Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its operations.“The successful delivery of the data center migration to the public cloud underscores...

June 19, 2025

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Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region

Microsoft this week launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country, located in the Santiago metropolitan region. This region is comprised of three independent physical locations - each with one or more data centers - is now operational.Tito Arciniega, president o...

June 18, 2025

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CyrusOne Plans 90MW Facility in Buckinghamshire, UK

US operator CyrusOne this week announced its sixth campus in the UK, LON6. Located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, the new site is set to deliver 90MW of IT capacity across 30,000 square meters (322,917 sq ft) of technical space. The campus will feature four two-story and two single-story data...

June 12, 2025

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Google to Invest $7bn in Iowa Expansion

Google announced over the weekend that it is "investing an additional $7 billion in Iowa within the next two years in cloud and AI infrastructure, as well as in expanded workforce development programs, meaningfully increasing the pace of investments the company has made in the state since 2007...

June 03, 2025

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CyrusOne, E.ON Partner on 61MW Onsite Power System

CyrusOne has partnered with European energy company E.ON to develop an on-site gas-fired power system at Cyrus’ FRA7 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. This agreement will see E.ON construct the IQ Energy Center, which is expected to have a capacity of 61MW at full buildout. According to Matt ...

June 02, 2025

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Google Signs Water Sustainability Agreement in North and South Carolina

Google has expanded a partnership with Arable to support water sustainability efforts across North and South Carolina which will see the deployment of Arable's in-field irrigation technology to hundreds of fields across the two states.As part of the agreement, Google will provide funding for t...

June 02, 2025

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