Google expects 2025 capex to surge to $75bn on AI data center buildout
But Google Cloud revenues disappoint, and shares fall
News - Sundar Pichai
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Google Cloud Q3 2024 revenue hits $11.4bn, data center spend set to increase in 2025
Company announced $7bn in data center investments during the quarter
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Google's CEO says company is considering nuclear power deals for data centers
Following Microsoft and Amazon's massive deals
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Google CEO: We're working on 1GW data centers, seeing money going into SMRs
But still no word on the company's own nuclear strategy
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Alphabet's quarterly capex hits $13bn, Google Cloud revenues jump to $10.32bn
Revenue up by more than $2bn YoY
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Google expects to spend $12bn per quarter on technical infrastructure
Cloud revenues up 28 percent in first quarter
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Google Cloud posts $9.2bn in revenue for Q4 2023; Microsoft Cloud revenue up 24% YoY
Bolstered by AI growth
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As AI race intensifies, Google merges DeepMind and Brain as Google DeepMind
The two teams historically competed against each other
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Uber picks Oracle and Google for 7-year cloud contracts, closing its own data centers
Company was long an outlier, choosing to operate its own infrastructure
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Google to lay off 12,000 workers globally
The company is about to lose 6 percent of its workforce
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Google to open first Japan data center in 2023
Pichai announces it on a visit to the country
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Microsoft lays off <1% of staff, Meta asks managers who to fire, Google slows hiring
As hyperscalers brace for a global economic slowdown
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Google launches TPU v4 chips, builds 9 exaflops AI cluster
But all the benchmarks are using the company's own custom floating point format
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Google to spend $9.5bn on US data centers and offices this year
Up from $7bn last year, but down from pre-Covid years
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HPE says all staff, contractors and visitors must have Covid-19 vaccine
Following Google, Facebook and Microsoft - while AT&T has a vaccine mandate for management staff
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Google opens quantum computer data center and R&D lab, plans commercial system by 2029
Promises to spend billions to break free from conventional compute architectures
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Google unveils fourth generation TPU AI chip
Twice as powerful as the last TPU
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Google plans to invest over $7bn on US data centers and offices this year
Google bets on work returning to the office - but spends less money than previous years
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Google Cloud loses $15bn in three years, counts it as a success
GCP business is growing fast, but it comes at a cost
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Aramco and stc launch 55.4 petaflops Cray supercomputer, Dammam 7
One of the top ten fastest supercomputers in the world
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Google buys 33-acre UK site for potential data center
It leases space in the UK, but has yet to build its own facility in the country
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Google plans to move to 24/7 carbon-free energy for data centers and offices by 2030
Now for the rest of us to catch up
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Google's Alphabet sees first revenue decline in history, but Cloud grows 43%
Oh no, they only made $7bn during a pandemic
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Orange turns to Google Cloud for data, AI, and Edge
Partnership for European 5G telco push
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Google invests $4.5bn in Reliance Jio in Digital India push
Google was looking to invest in Jio back in March
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Google announces $10bn investment fund to digitize India
The tech giant is working very closely with the Indian Government
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Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for IT overhaul
Deutsche will work with Google to get a much needed update to its systems
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Google plans Spanish cloud region, Telefónica partnership
Targeting 5G and Edge