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Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

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 t...

July 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Aligned

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

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 Goog...

July 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

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, overhau...

July 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google Cloud Signs Agreement with UK gov't to Reduce Legacy Tech Reliance

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...

July 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia

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 colla...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

IGM Financial Migrates Services to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

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...

June 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

CoreWeave to Develop 180MW data center in Indiana

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...

June 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Google to Invest $7bn in Iowa Expansion

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 2007...

June 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google Signs Water Sustainability Agreement in North and South Carolina

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 t...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Singaporean Science and Tech Agency Signs MoU with Google Cloud

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...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

CoreWeave Selected as AI Partner by Aston Martin Aramco

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 "elimina...

May 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Google Reaffirms Sovereign Cloud Solutions for EU

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 administr...

May 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Digital Realty to Purchase 5.1MW of Solar Energy from Summit Ridge Energy

Colo data center developer Digital Realty has signed an agreement to purchase 5.1MW of solar power from Summit Ridge Energy. The solar projects are part of Summit Ridge’s broader portfolio of solar assets across the state of Illinois. According to the company, its Illinois portfolio has a comb...

May 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

Google Signs 600MW Solar Energy Deal in South Carolina

Google has signed an energy deal to procure renewable energy credits (RECs) in South Carolina that allows Google to invest in and purchase RECs from a portfolio of more than 600 MW of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed by EnergyRe in South Carolina."Strengthening the gri...

May 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Merlin Edged Launches Barcelona Data Center

Merlin Edged has launched a data center in Barcelona, inaugurated today by the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, and Albert Tort, Secretary of Telecommunications and Digital Transformation of the Government at Generalitat de Catalunya. This facility will be used by neocloud Coreweave. "We'll...

May 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Verizon Launches AI-centric Network ffering

Verizon has launched a new AI-centric network offering called Verizon AI Connect, an integrated suite of solutions and products designed to “enable businesses to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) workloads at scale.” The telco s looking to make its underutilized data center assets available ...

January 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Verizon Enterprise

Rowan secures $975 million for Maryland data center campus

Data center developer Rowan Digital Infrastructure has closed $975 million of construction financing to build out its upcoming campus in Maryland. The funds will be used to build the first phase of a hyperscale data center campus in Maryland at the TPG-owned site in Frederick County. Phase one...

January 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Rowan Green Data

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