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Google’s 2024 environment report revealed that the tech giant’s green house gas (GHG) emissions rose by 13% year over year in 2023, while scope 2 emissions rose by 37%. -
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud have expanded their strategic alliance to accelerate Indosat’s transformation to an AI-native ‘TechCo’.
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Google has completed its fourth data centre in Singapore.
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Google is set to invest $2 billion in its first Malaysian data centre as South East Asia continues to see an influx of investment by tech giants.
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Google has announced the first ever fibre optic route to directly connect Africa with Australia.
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Plans for Google’s Honomoana cable, announced as part of its Pacific Connect initiative, have been expanded to connect New Zealand and add an additional landing station in Australia.
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Google has announced a $1billion investment to expand its Central Pacific Connect Initiative, which includes delivering two new subsea cables, Proa and Taihei.
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Lanre Kolade, the CEO of the company that manages the Equiano cable landing station in Lome, Togo, tells Capacity that his firm is providing an additional 300G since the faults to other cables serving West Africa.
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Four submarine cables running along the coast of West Africa have been damaged or are experiencing downtime, leading to internet outages in numerous countries across the region.
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Kyndryl has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to develop ‘responsible’ generative AI solutions and to accelerate adoption among customers.
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Singtel will collaborate with Google to offer Rich Communication Services (RCS) with Rich Business Messaging to its business customers – a first in Singapore.
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Google has bought land in Essex for the possible development of its new data centre campus.
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Google will invest US$1 billion in a new data centre in the UK, located in Waltham Cross Hertfordshire.
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Google has confirmed plans for the central Pacific Connect initiative, which will deliver two new intra-Pacific subsea cables, Bulikula and Halaihai.
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Google has announced that it is joining Desarrollo País of Chile (Country Development of Chile) and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to build Humboldt, a subsea cable connecting Chile, French Polynesia, and Australia.
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Telxius has confirmed that it is joining the Firmina subsea cable system.
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Google has announced the launch of Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable system that will connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the US.
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The economic benefits and improvements to people’s everyday lives brought about by artificial intelligence (AI) will outweigh the hit of job losses, Google has indicated in a new report.
