The tech industry is intensifying the hunt for massive amounts of clean electricity to power data centers needed for AI and cloud computing, driving power consumption to record highs.

Google will pay more than $3 billion to source carbon-free hydropower from Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners' plants in Pennsylvania.

Google agreed to spend more than $3 billion to buy power for its data centers from Brookfield Asset Management hydroelectric plants, with plans to potentially quadruple the amount of supply.

In a move that could make life easier for folks using devices based on its operating systems, Google is working toward unifying Android and ChromeOS, according to a high-ranking Google executive. Merging the systems could have positive outcomes for customers using,

The long-standing rumor of ChromeOS and Android's merger was finally confirmed in the most understated way. TechRadar's Lance Ulanoff recounted his conversation with Sameer Samat, Google's president of the Android ecosystem.

Google is taking another step toward unifying its ecosystem by merging Android and ChromeOS. Sameer Samat, the president of Google’s Android ecosystem, confirmed this shift in an interview with TechRadar.

The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it’s granting contract awards of up to $200 million for artificial intelligence development at Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI

OpenAI, Alphabet's Google, Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts of up to $200 million each, aimed at scaling up adoption of advanced AI capabilities in the U.S. Department of Defense,

The three new contracts come on top of last month’s equal award to OpenAI, bringing the Chief Digital & AI Officer’s investment in cutting-edge commercial “frontier AI” to a total of $800 million.