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The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises

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Google’s water use is soaring, consume more than 25% of water used in The Dalles

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Newsom just signed California pay transparency bill

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Data Center Heatmap

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FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

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Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract termination

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Google purchasing and expanding its Warsaw office for $700M

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Charm delivers Stripe's carbon removal purchase ahead of schedule

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Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4B in profits out of Ireland

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Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead

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Google says its carbon footprint is now zero

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Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation

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Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university

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Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’

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Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund

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Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants

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Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant

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Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Datacenter Locations Driven by 19th Century Politics

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Companies outside the tech industry are spinning off internal software

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California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants

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Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan

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Google Wants $15M in Tax Breaks to Build a Data Center in Minnesota

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Dyson moves vacuum giant's HQ to Singapore

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Google announces major expansion in New York City

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Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to store power in molten salt

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I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On

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Google Plans Large New York City Expansion

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Google donates money to help run the Kubernetes infrastructure

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Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract

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USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

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What Was Once Hailed as First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Is No More

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Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs

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Avoid Vendor Lock-In Risk with Multi-Cloud Deployments

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As California’s labor shortage grows, farmers replace workers with robots

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WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United States Climate Alliance

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Google’s Environmental Report

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Google's controversial groundwater withdrawal sparks question

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Intel Pulls Out of OpenStack Effort It Founded with Rackspace

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Former Google VP Starts a Company Promising Clean and Safe Nuclear Energy

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Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturing industry

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A Rare Tour of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters

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Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Prometheus as Second Hosted Project

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Google Takes Over Operations of Moffett Airfield from NASA

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Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley

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Google Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines

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City of Boston drops Microsoft for Gmail

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Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's to UK Schools

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Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center

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Super-secret Google builds servers in the dark

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Microsoft, Apple and Others Withdrawal Support for SOPA

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People who work from home are more satisfied with their jobs

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What Google's Famous Cafeterias Can Teach Us About Health

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Google Buying Manhattan Office Building for $1.9 Billion

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Twitter Drops MySQL For Cassandra

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LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud

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Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned

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Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources

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Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta

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Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand

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