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GOOGLE PLANS $75B INVESTMENT TO BUILD CLOUD
AI CAPACITY
Google plans to increase capital investments to $75 billion this year
in an effort to expand its AI and cloud capacity, says CEO Sundar
Pichai in the company's Q4 2024 earnings report. The company
spent $52.5 billion in capital expenditure in 2024.
Google will direct the majority of its growing CapEx to relieving
capacity bottlenecks through upgrades to infrastructure, including
cloud servers and data centers, according to CFO Anat Ashkenazi.
" We exited the year with more demand than we had available
capacity, " says Ashkenazi. " We are in a tight supply demand
situation, working very hard to bring more capacity online. "
Massive AI infrastructure investments are the new normal in
cloud. Microsoft promised in January to spend $80 billion on AIenabled
data centers during its current fiscal year, and Amazon was
projected to spend $75 billion on capital investments last year, the
majority of which was to " support the growing need for technology
infrastructure, " according to CFO Brian Olsavsky.
Source: www.constructiondive.com
BRADLEY'S DAVID PUGH ELECTED CHAIR OF ABC
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announces that Birmingham
partner David Pugh was elected as the 2025 National Chair of
the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) National Board of
Directors. He was elected to the one-year term at the ABC's annual
Leadership Institute meeting held November 12-14 in Scottsdale,
Arizona and serves beginning January 1, 2025.
A long-time active member of the ABC, Mr. Pugh is a member of
the executive committee and previously served on the national board
of directors. He also served as the southeast region vice chair after
holding several leadership positions with the Alabama chapter.
The ABC is a national construction industry trade association
with more than 23,000 members representing all specialties within
the U.S. construction industry. Founded in 1950, ABC and its 67
chapters help members develop people, win work, and deliver that
work safely, ethically, and profitably.
Bradley's award-winning Construction Practice Group has been
recognized by Best Law Firms as the nation's " Law Firm of the Year "
for Construction Law in 2025, as well as in 2022, 2020 and 2018,
and for Litigation - Construction in 2023.
For more, visit www.bradley.com.
STUDY REVEALS FRACTAL GRAPHENE ENHANCES
CEMENT PERFORMANCE
HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. has announced its second research
study in partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) highlighting
the advancements in extending the use of graphene into cement and
concrete applications.
The report, co-authored by Ranjith Divigalpitiya, CSO of
Hydrograph, validates the potential of graphene-enhanced
concretes to offer practical and sustainable options for high8
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