Both companies cited problems with “cooling systems” for causing the outages. Temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the UK on Tuesday.

DeepMind has let its AI system manage the temperature controls inside Google data centers, shaving huge chunks off the company’s electricity bill. Phaidra is hoping to bring that technology to power plants and other industrial giants.

With a squeeze on energy supplies because of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the political metrics are now changing for the giant data center facilities.

Google will still reap millions in tax benefits for years to come thanks to an exception written into state law for its sprawling operations in rural Oklahoma.

Vote marks key step in US efforts to change rules for Big Tech.

Under a judge’s tentative ruling, the Oracle women are poised to lose the class-action status they earlier won that gave them powerful leverage in a five-year court fight with their employer.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft are some of the world’s biggest supporters of clean energy. That’s not stopping the data center giants from pushing back on a huge wind and solar project.

Google is selling the service through its cloud division, which is trying to lure clients with tools for managing energy usage and reducing emissions. Early tests on Google’s data centers improved the value of wind energy by 20 percent.

Google’s critics have argued that providing cloud tools to oil-and-gas firms contradicts the company’s zero-carbon goals.

Google will offer Assured Open Source Software, the open source software it has vetted and uses internally, to enable enterprises to gain the benefits of OSS that has been verified as secure.