A small section inside a Google data center in western Iowa exploded late Monday night, injuring workers and bringing about temporary outages to some of Google’s most popular services including Gmail, YouTube and the Google search engine. The explosion at the data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, caused injuries to three employees, local officials said. “Three workers were accessing an electrical cabinet when there was an arc flash that resulted in all three being burned,” Justin James,… Source link
Read More »Responsive Search Ads take center stage – are you prepared?
Responsive Search Ads – RSA for short – are not the new kids on the block. RSAs have been a part of the PPC ecosystem for a few years. That being said, RSAs have been a hot topic in 2022. Why all the hubbub about them now? This summer, the preceding ad type, Expanded Text Ads, is being deprecated. This puts Responsive Search Ads front and center for advertisers as the singular text ad type for search campaigns. Let’s dig in a little bit… Source link
Read More »Responsive Search Ads take center stage – are you prepared? – Search Engine Land
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Read More »Google Bought Chicago’s Thompson Center and It’s Good News
Photo: B.O’Kane/Alamy Stock Photo For years, it looked like the James R. Thompson Center, Helmut Jahn’s postmodernist government building in downtown Chicago, might be demolished. The 1.2 million-square-foot structure, completed in 1984 and known for its dizzying 17-story public atrium, racked up $326 million in deferred maintenance and cost… Source link
Read More »NASCAR driver at the center of ‘Let’s go Brandon’ may have to skip races in 2022 thanks to a lack of sponsorship
Brandon Brown’s embrace of the right-wing slogan that involves his first name hasn’t reaped any financial rewards in 2022. Brown is stepping out of his No. 68 car for Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and may not compete in many more races the rest of the season. Brown’s team is looking to field drivers who have sponsorship money after a deal with a now-defunct political cryptocurrency didn’t flourish. And that lack of sponsorship is why… Source link
Read More »Google Is Buying The Thompson Center For $105 Million
CHICAGO — Google will take over the Thompson Center in The Loop, officials announced Wednesday. The tech giant has agreed to buy all of the building for $105 million after it is renovated by other organizations. The Thompson Center will be “entirely redeveloped” into an office suite for Google’s workers as part of the deal, Gov. JB Pritzker said at a news conference. The sale will benefit the company, as well as Illinois taxpayers and Chicagoans, he said. “Google is one of… Source link
Read More »Google, Oracle Data Centers Knocked Offline by London Heat | Data Center Knowledge
(Bloomberg) –London data centers used by Google and Oracle Corp. buckled on Tuesday after a record-setting heat wave hit Britain, knocking some websites offline. Both companies cited problems with “cooling systems” for causing the outages. Oracle’s first message appeared on its service page in late morning New York time, noting that “unreasonable temperatures” had affected cloud and networking equipment in its South London… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud data center in London faces outage on UK’s hottest day
3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the Google Cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register July 19 (Reuters) – A Google Cloud data center in London faced an outage on Tuesday, according to an update on the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit’s status page, as temperature in the UK soared to a record high. Google Cloud said it was a “cooling related” failure at one of the… Source link
Read More »Alums From Google’s DeepMind Bring AI Energy Controls to Industries | Data Center Knowledge
(Bloomberg) — Industrial production is one of the dirtiest corners of the corporate world. A startup from former Google engineers thinks it can clean it up with artificial intelligence. Phaidra, a company based in Seattle, sells AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial giants. It’s relying on the same fix as their former company, DeepMind, Google’s research lab. For several years, DeepMind has let its AI… Source link
Read More »Google and Yelp disable reviews on some crisis pregnancy center pages amid activist ‘spam’ campaign
Google and Yelp appear to have suspended the ability to post reviews for some crisis pregnancy centers listed on those platforms, which some activists say could prevent them from providing accurate information about the centers which are known for attempting to persuade women seeking abortions to not get them. Google appears to have also suspended the ability to post reviews of some abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. The suspension of the ability to post reviews was first noticed by… Source link
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