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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Open Compute begins trials with hyperscale companies to test green concrete

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has announced a new collaboration with several hyperscale companies including Google, AWS, Meta, and Microsoft to test developing and deploying low-embodied carbon concrete, or “green concrete.” The initiative is in line with an open letter written b...

August 25, 2024

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Google to invest $1bn Dallas data centers expansion

Google has announced new data center investment plans for Dallas as it revealed plans to invest $1 billion in Texas this year through its data center campuses in Midlothian and Red Oak. The company said the investment would take its spending in the Lone Star State to $2.7 billion. Google said...

August 18, 2024

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Indosat and Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign Indonesian cloud

Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to create sovereign and Edge cloud services in Indonesia. The telco will offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on-premises to customers in Indonesia via its data center arm. Customers will also have acc...

August 13, 2024

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Google Cloud offers Y Combinator startups access to dedicated Nvidia GPU cluster

Google Cloud has announced that it will be offering Y Combinator startups access to a subsidized cluster of Nvidia GPUs and Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) to build artificial intelligence (AI) models. Google will also be offering priority access to the Summer 2024 cohort of startups, ...

August 02, 2024

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Humana selects Google Cloud for its IT infrastructure

Humana Inc., a healthcare insurance company and Google Cloud have entered into an agreement which will see Humana modernizing its cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud, and using the Google's artificial intelligence technologies. Jim Rechtin, Humana CEO said: “Embracing technology solutions...

July 31, 2024

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Jaguar's Formula E team selects Google Cloud as cloud partner

Jaguar's Formula E team has selected Google Cloud as cloud partner and will be using Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies both on and off the track during the 2024/25 season. James Barclay, managing director of JLR Motorsport and Jagar TCS racing team pr...

July 27, 2024

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Google launches air-gapped GDC hardware

Google has launched an air-gapped version of its Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) hardware for AI which will enable enterprises to use cloud infrastructure for AI workloads in challenging environments outside of Google's data centers. Sachin Gupta, Google Cloud's general manager for infrastructu...

July 20, 2024

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Google signs new digital infrastructure and cloud computing MoU

Google has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Romania and the company for ‘projects in digital infrastructure, innovation, and research.’ Local press has also reported that Google is in negotiations to invest $2 billion in developing data centers in the country....

July 18, 2024

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