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Read Revolut and Google Cloud Sign Multi-Year Agreement
Revolut and Google Cloud Sign Multi-Year Agreement

Revolut and Google Cloud Sign Multi-Year Agreement

September 06, 2025 Google

UK-based fintech Revolut has signed a multi-year and multi-million-dollar deal with Google Cloud. The two companies have an existing relationship, with Revolut being one of the largest Google Pay and Wallet partners. "Google's world-leading AI and cloud infrastructure are an incredible asset,"...

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Read Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

August 30, 2025 Google

Google-backed nuclear fusion company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), has successfully raised $863 million in Series B2 funding, adding a range of international investors to its list of backers. New investors included NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm), Counterpoint Global, Galaxy...

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Read Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers
Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers

August 30, 2025 Google

Google and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin this week announced Google will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026. The funds will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun and Prince...

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Read Digital Realty Breaks Ground on Rome Facility
Digital Realty Breaks Ground on Rome Facility

Digital Realty Breaks Ground on Rome Facility

August 29, 2025 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty this week announced that work on ROM1 has started. On schedule to be completed in 2027, the facility will offer 3MW of IT capacity at launch. Digital Realty said that the 22-hectare campus could total 2.3 million sq ft (213,676 sqm) at full build-out, making it one of the largest...

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Read Digital Realty Launches 2MW Data Center in Nigeria
Digital Realty Launches 2MW Data Center in Nigeria

Digital Realty Launches 2MW Data Center in Nigeria

August 26, 2025 Digital Realty Trust

Colocation giant Digital Realty this week announced the opening of its latest data center in Lagos, in the Lekki area of the city, adding nearly 2MW of IT capacity across nearly 1,205 sqm (13,000 sq ft) of data hall space. The facility will be interconnected with Digital Realty’s existing LKK1...

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Read QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland
QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

August 20, 2025 QTS Data Centers

Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good news....

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Read Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas
Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

August 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...

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Read Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms
Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

August 14, 2025 Equinix

US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of the...

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Read QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa
QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

August 13, 2025 QTS Data Centers

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good...

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Read Google, I&M and TVA to Expand Use of Demand Response in Data Centers
Google,  I&M and TVA to Expand Use of Demand Response in Data Centers

Google, I&M and TVA to Expand Use of Demand Response in Data Centers

August 04, 2025 Google

Google has signed agreements with utilities Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to enable demand response capabilities at its data centers doing machine learning (ML) workloads. The agreements are part of a broader strategy by Google to bring flexible demand...

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Read Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus
 Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

July 25, 2025 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers this week announced plans to expand in Central Ohio with the development of a data center campus inside the Conesville Industrial Park in Coshocton. Coshocton is located approximately 63 miles (101 km) northeast of Columbus.Aligned will develop a 197-acre parcel adjacent to...

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Read Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership
Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

July 24, 2025 Google

Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage (LDES) company, Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company’s CO2 battery technology. The company has developed a 20MW/200MWh battery, which it claims has a lifetime of more...

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Read Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit
Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit

Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit

July 22, 2025 Equinix

Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million as a settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action that alleged it misled its shareholders. According to Hindenburg’s March 2024 report, Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs.It claimed that...

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Read Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada
Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

July 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage said...

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Read Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools
Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools

Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools

July 17, 2025 Google

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...

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Read Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD
Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD

Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD

July 16, 2025 Google

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...

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Read Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits
Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

July 15, 2025 Google

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...

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Read Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield
Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

July 14, 2025 Google

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,...

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

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

July 11, 2025 Google

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...

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Read Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia
Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia

Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia

June 26, 2025 Google

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...

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