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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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Zettabyte proposes new AI data center in Taiwan

Zettabyte, which describes itself as “Asia's leading AI data center software and systems technology provider" has announced a strategic partnership with Wistron Corporation, a technology service provider, to build Taiwan's first hyperscale AI data center. Kenneth Chung-Hou Tai, chairman of Ze...

September 01, 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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AMD president Victor Peng announces retirement

AMD president Victor Peng has announced plans to retire on August 30. Till his retirement date, Peng will continue to serve on the AMD executive team and take on an advisory role to support the leadership transition.AMD chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su said: “Victor re-joined AMD in 2022 following t...

July 24, 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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Google signs new wind PPAs in Belgium

Google has signed five new Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) totaling more than 118MW to procure wind energy in Belgium from Engie. Google will procure another 92MW from a Belgian wind farm in operation for eight years.Vincent Verbeke, CEO of Engie Belgium, said: “We are pleased to partner with...

July 03, 2024

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Actis unveils Asia-focused data center firm Epoch Digital

Investment firm Actis this week announced the launch of Epoch Digital, with a current portfolio under development offering 200MW of IT capacity across three identified projects and more in the pipeline.CEO Chng said: “The emergence of generative AI is transforming industries at an unprecedente...

June 21, 2024

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Google signs new power supply deal with Nevada Energy

Google has signed a new type of power supply deal with Nevada utility company NV Energy. Dubbed a “clean transition tariff," it will see NV Energy procure 115MW of renewable energy from a geothermal power plant run by Fervo Energy.In a joint blog post on the deal, Amanda Peterson Corio, Google...

June 14, 2024

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Google partners with Purdue University for low-carbon data center construction

Google has partnered with Purdue University, Indiana, on a project exploring the use of AI in designing low-carbon data centers and other industrial buildings. The project will deploy AI to explore new materials, technologies, and design strategies that can potentially reduce the carbon footpr...

June 01, 2024

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Google to invest in Malaysian cloud region

Google has revealed its plans to invest $2 billion in developing its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia and has already selected a site for the development, which will be in Sime Darby Property's Elmina Business Park in Greater Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president, chief investment o...

May 30, 2024

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New startup launched by ex-Google staff targets European data centers

A new startup by former Google staff, offering land and power for industrial campuses is now targeting European data centers. “I am very pleased to announce the launch of Sepia Infrastructure,” Sepia CEO Fabien Vieau announced on LinkedIn this week. “Sepia Infrastructure delivers next-generati...

May 30, 2024

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