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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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Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas

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 th...

August 29, 2025

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EdgeConneX to Build Data Centers in Chicago and Atlanta

Build-to-suit data center company EdgeConneX will set up data centers in Chicago and Atlanta for neocloud Lambda to support hybrid cooling with liquid-to-the-chip direct cooling and air cooling, and join two existing air-cooled facilities across both cities."Our partnership with Lambda undersc...

August 20, 2025

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Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...

August 18, 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

Microsoft Azure

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

Microsoft Azure

Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage sa...

July 18, 2025

Vantage Data Centers

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

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

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

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

Google

Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomput...

July 12, 2025

Microsoft Azure

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

Google

Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations...

July 04, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational operations.R...

July 03, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is o...

July 01, 2025

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