Google cuts data center power use to ease strain on US grids

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in its latest effort to secure power for fast‑growing data ...
TechCrunch

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...
NPR

A judge ordered Google to share its search data. What does that mean for user privacy?

Earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued penalties against Google for monopolizing the search engine market, he stopped short of the harshest ones — like forcing the breakup of ...
SiliconANGLE

Google details cloud-based Private AI Compute system for securing Pixel data

Google LLC today detailed Private AI Compute, a cloud-based system it uses to power its Pixel handsets’ artificial intelligence features. Some of the AI models used by the latest Pixel 10 smartphone ...
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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react

BOTETOURT CO., Va. – A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between ...
NPR

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...