The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure, announced Google is now an Executive Member and will hold a seat on its Board of Directors.
Google announced that it is working towards creating the company’s data centers to be 24×7 carbon-free energy everywhere in the world. To achieve 24×7 carbon-free energy, Google data centers needs to work more closely with carbon-free energy sources like solar and wind.
In a blog post, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet announced that Google will invest more than $10 billion in offices and data centers across the United States in 2020.
Google recently announced that it is going ahead to acquire a enterprise file storage firm, Elastifile and upon the close of the acquisition, Elastifile will join Google Cloud.
AMD recently announced that Google has selected its high-performance, custom AMD Radeon datacenter GPUs for its Vulkan and Linux-based Google Stadia. AMD also is supporting Google with its software development tools and Linux-based, open-source Vulkan driver
Google continued its growth momentum as it announced an investment of over $13 billion in building new data centers and offices across US. Last year, the company claimed to have already invested nearly $9 billion to grow its footprint in the country and hired almost 10,000 people in US alone.
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.
Data Centers are supposed to be one of biggest consumer of energy in the world and generates up to two per cent of the global CO2 emissions, To counter this rising challenge Google has found a way to deal with it by deploying AI.
Google, the big daddy of internet announced little over a year ago, that were on track to purchase enough renewable energy to match all its electricity consumption over the next year.
