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Penta Infra gets pension fund PGGM

PGGM, which invests on behalf of Dutch pension fund PFZW, has acquired a 49 percent stake in the European data center provider from Photon Capital, an investor that has been involved with Penta Infra since its inception.Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "We are proud to welcome PGGM as...

January 02, 2025

Penta Infra

Penta Infra bags new investors

PGGM, which invests on behalf of Dutch pension fund PFZW, has acquired a 49 percent stake in the European data center provider from Photon Capital, an investor that has been involved with Penta Infra since its inception. Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "We are proud to welcome PGGM a...

December 20, 2024

Penta Infra

Google debuts Willow quantum computing chip

Google has announced its latest quantum computing chip, 'Willow,' claiming that the processor performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes, which would otherwise take 1025 years on a conventional supercomputer. Google said that the new chip has 105 qubits, which can retain ...

December 12, 2024

Google

Google makes Trillium AI accelerators generally available

Google has launched its self-developed Trillium AI accelerators which are designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Trillium is Google's sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), described as being Google's "most advanced TPU," capable of achieving a 4.7x increase in peak compu...

December 11, 2024

Google

Yondr Group launches data center in Northern Virginia

Yondr Group has launched its first data center in Northern Virginia. Having broken ground on the facility in 2022, the first phase is now operational at what will eventually be a two-building campus with 96MW of IT capacity. Chad Stanley, senior construction director for the Americas said: “No...

November 19, 2024

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Google DeepMind refutes criticism of AI chip design platform AlphaChip

Google DeepMind has published a research paper hitting back at criticism of its AI chip design system AlphaChip. That paper claimed that AlphaChip was able to save thousands of hours of human effort for each new generation of Google TPU AI accelerator, and was already being used by the company...

November 18, 2024

Google

Saudi dairy company Almarai moves to Google Cloud

Saudi Arabia-based dairy company Almarai is moving its critical systems to Google Cloud and hopes that this will improve its scalability and flexibility while remaining cost-effective. The data will be hosted in Google Cloud's Saudi Arabia region, enabling the company to meet digital sovereign...

November 08, 2024

Google

Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio

Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on a new data centre campus located 70 acres outside Columbus in New Albany. OH1 will provide a total of 192MW of IT capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet (139,355 sqm). The company said more than $2 billion will be invested in the project, wi...

October 31, 2024

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Citigroup signs multi-year contract with Google Cloud

American investment banking and financial services firm Citi has signed a multi-year contract with Google Cloud to use its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. The agreement will see Citi migrate several workloads and applications to Google Cloud, and use Google Cloud's ...

October 29, 2024

Google

VP and head of platform Amit Zavery to leave Google

The vice president, general manager, and head of platform at Google Cloud is set to depart after spending the last five and a half years at Google, joining from Oracle Cloud along with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. "The decision to leave Google is one of the toughest I’ve ever made," Zavery ...

October 25, 2024

Google

Google Quantum AI invests in QuEra

Google Quantum AI has invested an undisclosed sum in quantum startup QuEra. In a statement, the neutral-atom quantum computing company said the investment will help it “accelerate technology advancements” such as developing scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers. Commenting on the inves...

October 14, 2024

Google

Google Distributed Cloud expands partnership to add NetApp offerings

NetApp and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, integrating NetApp's unified data storage and intelligent services into its Distributed Cloud architecture. The companies aim to help public sectors and regulated industries access artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while meetin...

October 03, 2024

Google

Alva to use Google Cloud as primary cloud provider

Indonesian electric motorcycle company Alva has selected Google Cloud as its primary cloud service provider and plans to use Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) optimized infrastructure for innovation across R&D, customer service, productivity, and marketing. Alva will also look i...

October 01, 2024

Google

DNeX and Google Cloud to develop sovereign cloud in Malaysia

Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) and Google Cloud have signed a deal to deliver sovereign cloud services to Malaysia and will operate the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) offering as a managed GDC provider, bringing a sovereign cloud offering to the country. Karan Bajwa, vice president for Asia P...

September 30, 2024

Google

Google launches first data center in Malaysia.

Google this week held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia located at the Elmina Business Park outside Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, said: "Today, Google reaffirms its support for advancing ...

September 30, 2024

Google

Google signs solar deal in Nebraska

Google revealed this week that it has worked with Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) on a procurement framework that enables Google to supply carbon-free energy to OPPD. The search giant signed a deal with NextEra Energy to offtake from the Pierce County Energy Center a 420MW solar system and ...

September 19, 2024

Google

OpenAI disbands research SRE team

OpenAI has disbanded its Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads which was formed less than a year ago. Todd Underwood who was hired to lead the team spent 14 years and nine months at Google, where he created the machine learning SRE group, and co-authore...

September 13, 2024

Google

NTT selected to deploy Private 5G in Brownsville, Texas

NTT Data has been selected by the City of Brownsville in Texas to deploy private 5G wireless connectivity across the city. It will build and manage a turnkey private 5G network with high-speed and low latency. In addition, NTT’s Smart Solutions will be deployed to deliver data analysis, predic...

September 10, 2024

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Penta Infra plans new data center in Copenhagen, Denmark

European data center firm Penta Infra has announced the acquisition of a site that will be developed into a 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft) data center, delivering 20MW of IT load. This will be the company's second facility in the Danish capital. Penta acquired its Glostrup, Copenhagen, data cente...

September 06, 2024

Penta Infra

Mubadala invests in data center developer Yondr Group

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala has invested in data center developer Yondr via an existing investment by US asset manager Apollo. Mubadala said its investment will support Yondr’s growth strategy amid increased demand for hyperscale data centers. It has also invested in global fi...

August 25, 2024

Yondr Group

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