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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 Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft
Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

July 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure

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 supercomputers...

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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 Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers
Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

July 04, 2025 Microsoft Azure

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 to...

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Read Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft
Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

July 03, 2025 Microsoft Azure

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...

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Read Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna
Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

July 01, 2025 Microsoft Azure

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 one...

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

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

June 30, 2025 Microsoft Azure

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's...

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Read Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US
Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

June 26, 2025 Microsoft Azure

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 to...

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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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Read IGM Financial Migrates Services to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
IGM Financial Migrates Services to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

IGM Financial Migrates Services to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

June 19, 2025 Google

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...

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Read Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region
Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region

Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region

June 18, 2025 Microsoft Azure

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 of...

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Read Google to Invest $7bn in Iowa Expansion
Google to Invest $7bn in Iowa Expansion

Google to Invest $7bn in Iowa Expansion

June 03, 2025 Google

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...

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Read Google Signs Water Sustainability Agreement in North and South Carolina
Google Signs Water Sustainability Agreement in North and South Carolina

Google Signs Water Sustainability Agreement in North and South Carolina

June 02, 2025 Google

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 the...

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Read Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint
Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint

Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint

June 02, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed that it will be expanding its data center capacity in Switzerland with a $400 million investment which will "further strengthen Switzerland's cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, including the provision of cutting-edge graphics processing units...

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Read Singaporean Science and Tech Agency Signs MoU with Google Cloud
Singaporean Science and Tech Agency Signs MoU with Google Cloud

Singaporean Science and Tech Agency Signs MoU with Google Cloud

May 31, 2025 Google

Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Cloud to use the latter's computing and AI solutions. Under the MoU, use the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Air Gapped offering. The MoU will see HTX and Google work together on AI...

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Read Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in Esbjerg
Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in Esbjerg

Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in Esbjerg

May 30, 2025 Denmark

Danish real estate firm Thylander revealed plans for a “fully Danish developed, operated, and owned hyperscale data center" on LinkedIn. The 100MW facility in Esbjerg is set to launch in 2026 with an initial 10-20MW, and will have expansion potential to 200MW. Thylander said it is working with...

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Read Microsoft Launches Cloud Region in Malaysia
Microsoft Launches Cloud Region in Malaysia

Microsoft Launches Cloud Region in Malaysia

May 29, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has launched its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising three availability zones. The region is described by Microsoft as "AI-ready" and will provide Malaysian organisations with Microsoft cloud services offering in-country data residency.YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister of...

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Read Microsoft Partners with Norden to Cut Scope 3 Maritime Emissions by 10k tons
Microsoft Partners with Norden to Cut Scope 3 Maritime Emissions by 10k tons

Microsoft Partners with Norden to Cut Scope 3 Maritime Emissions by 10k tons

May 26, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has partnered with Danish shipping company Norden to cut its Scope 3 CO2 emissions by approximately 10,000 tons over three years. Both companies will collaborate on a pilot project, utilizing Norden’s biofuel book and claim solution which allows companies that rely on maritime transport...

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