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Google begins surfacing vaccine centers, hospital beds, oxygen info in India

TipRanks Buy These 2 New Stocks Before They Jump Over 80%, Says JPMorgan In the past week, investors have had to cope with multiple conflicting signals from the markets. The April jobs report, which was expected to show almost 1 million new positions for the month, showed only 266,000. The official unemployment number ticked upward slightly to 6.1%, and hourly wages also gained – by 0.7%. That last would seem to be a positive – except that, combined with the massive government stimulus… Source link

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Arlington company to provide carbon-free power for Google data centers

Arlington-based AES Corp. has signed an agreement to supply electricity to power Google’s data centers in Virginia with carbon-free energy. Arlington, Virginia-based AES Corp. has signed an agreement to supply electricity to power Google’s data centers in Virginia with carbon-free energy. Financial terms of the 10-year supply contract weren’t disclosed, but AES said it will require about $600 million of investment and generate 1,200 jobs, both permanent and… Source link

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Google to power Virginia data centers with 24/7 clean energy from AES

Dive Brief: AES announced on Tuesday a 10-year agreement to be the sole supplier of energy to three Google data centers in Virginia, providing clean power around the clock through a 500-MW portfolio of resources. Through the partnership, AES will decarbonize Google’s load in Virginia. The partnership “lays a blueprint for other companies looking to decarbonize their own operations,” Michael Terrell, Google’s director of energy, said in a statement. AES assembled a… Source link

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Google to invest $7 billion in U.S. offices, data centers this year

(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will invest $7 billion in offices and data centers across the U.S. this year, down from the $10 billion last year, and create 10,000 new full-time jobs as it takes on a pandemic-driven surge in internet traffic. The latest investment includes expansion plans for data centers in Nebraska, South Carolina and Texas, and its offices in Atlanta, D.C., Washington, Chicago and New York. Google is also spending $1 billion in its home state of California. The move… Source link

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Google to spend $7 billion on data centers and office space in 2021

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Google says it plans to spend more than $7 billion on real estate across the U.S. in 2021 as it resumes spending in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company said the money will go toward expanding offices and data centers across 19 states, creating what will amount to at least 10,000 full-time jobs. Some $1 billion will go… Source link

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Twitter Shifts More Computing from Its Data Centers to Google Cloud

Twitter is expanding its use of Google Cloud, moving more of its computing infrastructure from its own data centers to the cloud platform and using more of Google’s data tools to empower more of its staff to innovate. Google announced that the two are taking their few-years-long relationship to a new level Thursday. Related: Twitter Will Use AWS to Power User Feeds “As Twitter continues to scale, we’re excited to partner with Google on more… Source link

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