Global technology firms are committing billions to expand computing, chip supply and energy capacity to meet surging demand for artificial intelligence applications, Reuters reports. Alphabet’s Google unit said it will invest NULL billion through 2027 to build three new data centres in Texas, while the company continues to expand its existing Midlothian campus and Dallas cloud region. The article frames these moves as part of a wider industry push to scale computing and energy infrastructure for the next generation of models and services.
The piece lists a series of recent multi-billion dollar deals and partnerships that underline the scramble for capacity. An investor group that includes BlackRock, Microsoft and Nvidia is buying Aligned Data Centers, a global operator with nearly 80 facilities, in a deal reported at NULL billion. OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom to develop its first in-house artificial intelligence processors and struck a multi-year chip supply deal with AMD that gives it an option to buy up to roughly 10 percent of the chipmaker. Nvidia is reported to be investing up to NULL billion in OpenAI and will supply data centre chips, and has also agreed to an arrangement to invest NULL billion in Intel that would give it roughly 4 percent of the company after new shares are issued.
Other agreements highlighted include multi-year cloud and capacity deals involving Oracle, Meta, CoreWeave, Microsoft, Nebius Group and others, with several reported amounts shown as NULL in the article. Examples include a reported six-year Google cloud deal with Meta worth more than NULL billion, a CoreWeave agreement with Meta for NULL billion, and a reported Oracle cloud contract with OpenAI under which OpenAI would buy NULL billion in computing power over about five years. The list also notes investments and contracts involving SoftBank, Tesla, Samsung, Scale AI, Windsurf and Amazon’s funding of Anthropic. Reuters presents the compilation as evidence of rapid, industry-wide investment to secure the chips, cloud capacity and data centres that will underpin large-scale artificial intelligence deployment.
