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Microsoft Signs 100MW Solar PPA in Japan

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Japanese energy firm Shizen Energy for 100MW of solar power in Japan.The power will be supplied from four solar projects in the Kyushu and Chugoku regions of Japan. According to Shizen, all four projects have reached financial close, a...

October 02, 2025

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Microsoft Signs Green Steel Supply Deal with Stegra

Microsoft has signed a deal with green steel company Stegra for the supply of low-carbon steel for use within its data centers. The agreement will see Stegra deliver green steel, which it claims is up to 95 percent less carbon-intensive than conventional steel, to Microsoft's data center equi...

September 25, 2025

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Microsoft Signs $6bn AI Deal with Nscale

Microsoft has signed a deal to rent $6.2 billion of AI computing power in Norway. The capacity will be provided by Nscale and Norwegian investment company Aker. The compute capacity will be powered entirely by renewable energy, and it seems to be from the same data center as announced earlier ...

September 18, 2025

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Microsoft Signs Ten Year Partnership with Shayp

Microsoft has signed a ten-year partnership with Belgian water technology company Shayp to support the launch of its corporate water efficiency platform, Shayp 4IMPACT, designed to deliver verifiable and auditable water savings. It will commence with deployments across schools and public build...

September 17, 2025

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Microsoft to Build Data Center in Elsdorf, Germany

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...

September 16, 2025

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Google Opens Hertfordshire Data Center

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 w...

September 16, 2025

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Google Cloud to Provide AI and Cloud Services to Eneva

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 t...

September 11, 2025

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Google Behind West Memphis Data Center Project in Arkansas

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 c...

September 10, 2025

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Revolut and Google Cloud Sign Multi-Year Agreement

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,"...

September 06, 2025

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Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government

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 ...

September 04, 2025

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

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 Int...

August 30, 2025

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Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers

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 ...

August 30, 2025

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Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

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 Kha...

August 12, 2025

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Google, I&M and TVA to Expand Use of Demand Response in Data Centers

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 c...

August 04, 2025

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Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

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 Microso...

July 28, 2025

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Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

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 deman...

July 24, 2025

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Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

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 mor...

July 24, 2025

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Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

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 d...

July 19, 2025

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Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools

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...

July 17, 2025

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Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD

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 proc...

July 16, 2025

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