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Read Microsoft to Build Data Center in Elsdorf, Germany
Microsoft to Build Data Center in Elsdorf, Germany

Microsoft to Build Data Center in Elsdorf, Germany

September 16, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is set to develop a data center on a 26-hectare site, around one kilometer (0.6 miles) south of Heppendorf, Germany.Elsdorf is in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis area in North Rhine-Westphalia, just west of Cologne. Positioned in the west of Germany, Microsoft is already developing data centers in...

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Read Google Opens Hertfordshire Data Center
Google Opens Hertfordshire Data Center

Google Opens Hertfordshire Data Center

September 16, 2025 Google

Google is opening a new data center in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, today as part of what it says is a £5 billion ($6.81bn) investment in the UK over the next two years. It is part of a string of investments unveiled by US companies in UK digital infrastructure this week, timed to coincide with...

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Read Google Cloud to Provide AI and Cloud Services to Eneva
Google Cloud to Provide AI and Cloud Services to Eneva

Google Cloud to Provide AI and Cloud Services to Eneva

September 11, 2025 Google

Brazilian power generation firm Eneva has partnered with Google Cloud to use its cloud, data, and AI technologies to optimize its operations across the Brazilian market. Accenture migrated Eneva's infrastructure to Google Cloud to improve its access to data across the enterprise as a part of this...

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Read Google Behind West Memphis Data Center Project in Arkansas
Google Behind West Memphis Data Center Project in Arkansas

Google Behind West Memphis Data Center Project in Arkansas

September 10, 2025 Google

Google has confirmed it is behind a data center project in West Memphis, Arkansas. Dubbed Project Pyramid, plans were submitted earlier this year to develop a five-building data center campus on a 1,178-acre property on the south side of Bollinger Road in West Memphis, Crittenden County. The...

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Read Revolut and Google Cloud Sign Multi-Year Agreement
Revolut and Google Cloud Sign Multi-Year Agreement

Revolut and Google Cloud Sign Multi-Year Agreement

September 06, 2025 Google

UK-based fintech Revolut has signed a multi-year and multi-million-dollar deal with Google Cloud. The two companies have an existing relationship, with Revolut being one of the largest Google Pay and Wallet partners. "Google's world-leading AI and cloud infrastructure are an incredible asset,"...

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Read Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government
Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government

Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government

September 04, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has agreed to provide the US government with up to $6 billion in discounts over the next three years. The discounts will apply to Azure cloud computing services, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Dynamics 365, and cybersecurity tools. The first year alone could see the government saving up to...

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Read Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio
Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

September 01, 2025 Ohio

Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’ to...

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Read Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

August 30, 2025 Google

Google-backed nuclear fusion company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), has successfully raised $863 million in Series B2 funding, adding a range of international investors to its list of backers. New investors included NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm), Counterpoint Global, Galaxy...

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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 QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland
QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

August 20, 2025 QTS Data Centers

Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good news....

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Read QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa
QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

August 13, 2025 QTS Data Centers

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good...

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Read Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank
Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

August 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri...

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Read $10m Natural Gas Pipeline to Supply Onsite Fuel Cell Facility at Ohio Facility
$10m Natural Gas Pipeline to Supply Onsite Fuel Cell Facility at Ohio Facility

$10m Natural Gas Pipeline to Supply Onsite Fuel Cell Facility at Ohio Facility

August 05, 2025 Ohio

Aspire Energy Express, the Ohio subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities, has partnered with American Electric Power (AEP) to build and operate an intrastate natural gas pipeline to serve a fuel cell facility set to power a data center behind-the-meter. The new natural gas pipeline will cost...

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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 Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy
Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

July 28, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has cut off cloud computing services to India's Nayara Energy, following EU sanctions on the oil refinery company. Nayara revealed it had initiated legal proceedings against Microsoft after the "abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical services," with Nayara claiming that Microsoft...

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Read Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus
 Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

July 25, 2025 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers this week announced plans to expand in Central Ohio with the development of a data center campus inside the Conesville Industrial Park in Coshocton. Coshocton is located approximately 63 miles (101 km) northeast of Columbus.Aligned will develop a 197-acre parcel adjacent to...

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Read Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal
Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

July 24, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing 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 Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms
Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

July 19, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) have made a commercial agreement that the two say will help "reform licensing terms" for Microsoft software on CISPE member cloud infrastructure. This comes after it was decided that the previously required solution being...

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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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