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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 Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus
Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus

Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus

August 29, 2025 CoreWeave

Blue Owl is funding the development of CoreWeave’s planned data center campus in Pennsylvania. Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital closed on a joint venture partnership to include $4 billion of funding for the previously announced CoreWeave developments in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Blue Owl aims to...

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Read Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas
Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas

Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas

August 29, 2025 Novva Data Centers

US operator Novva Data Centers has acquired more land in Las Vegas, Nevada in a $181 million deal which reportedly closed earlier this month. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports VanTrust Real Estate sold nearly 205 acres in the Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas to Novva.According to the...

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Read EdgeConneX to Develop Second Facility in Japan
EdgeConneX to Develop Second Facility in Japan

EdgeConneX to Develop Second Facility in Japan

August 28, 2025 EdgeConneX

Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced the acquisition of its second data center site in the Greater Osaka and Yawata areas of Japan. The new site will provide an additional 150MW upon completion, bringing EdgeConneX's total data center capacity in Japan to 350MW of utility power at full...

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Read Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa
Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa

Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa

August 08, 2025 Edged Energy

Data center firm Edged this week said it had topped out its facility in Ankeny, just north of Des Moines, marking the completion of the building’s structural frame. The facility will offer 13MW of capacity across 105,000 sq ft (9,755 sqm) and utilize a waterless cooling system from sister company...

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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 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 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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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 CoreWeave to Develop 180MW data center in Indiana
CoreWeave to Develop 180MW data center in Indiana

CoreWeave to Develop 180MW data center in Indiana

June 12, 2025 CoreWeave

AI cloud firm CoreWeave is to build a 180MW data center in Indiana. It was revealed ata city council meeting this week, the City of Hammond unanimously approved a development agreement for a multibillion-dollar data center investment with CoreWeave.CoreWeave will expand its current presence at...

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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 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 CoreWeave Selected as AI Partner by Aston Martin Aramco
CoreWeave Selected as AI Partner by Aston Martin Aramco

CoreWeave Selected as AI Partner by Aston Martin Aramco

May 24, 2025 CoreWeave

Formula One team Aston Martin Aramco has signed a multi-year agreement with AI cloud provider CoreWeave. As part of the partnership, CoreWeave will help Aston Martin Aramco to move its on-premises computing infrastructure to a cloud computing environment, which Aston Martin hopes will "eliminate...

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Read Google Reaffirms Sovereign Cloud Solutions for EU
Google Reaffirms Sovereign Cloud Solutions for EU

Google Reaffirms Sovereign Cloud Solutions for EU

May 23, 2025 Google

Google has announced a series of additional security and sovereignty elements for its sovereign cloud in response to EU groups' concerns about trade tensions and the reliance on US tech companies.The move comes as European groups are raising concerns about the potential for the Trump...

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