{"id":83931,"date":"2025-08-22T01:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83931\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:32:10","slug":"meta-signs-over-us10b-cloud-deal-with-google-reuters-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83931\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta signs over US$10b cloud deal with Google, Reuters reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO\/BENGALURU (Aug 22): Google has struck a cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than US$10 billion (RM42.27 billion), a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Meta will use Google Cloud&#8217;s servers, storage, networking and other services, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>Google and Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was first reported by The Information.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s comments in July that the company would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centres.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Reuters reported that OpenAI was planning to add Alphabet&#8217;s Google Cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Meta is seeking outside partners to help it fund the massive infrastructure needed to power AI by offloading US$2 billion in data centre assets, the company disclosed in a filing earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Uploaded by Chng Shear Lane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO\/BENGALURU (Aug 22): Google has struck a cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than US$10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4323,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-83931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-computing","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}