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Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google (reuters.com)

(Friday August 22, 2025 @11:30PM (BeauHD) from the tech-frenemies dept.)


Google has [1]signed a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta worth over $10 billion , making it the second major partnership after a [2]recent agreement with OpenAI. The deal will see Meta rely on Google Cloud's infrastructure to support its [3]massive AI data center buildout , as the company ramps up capital spending into the tens of billions. [4]The Information (paywalled) first reported the deal.



[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-signs-over-10-billion-cloud-deal-with-google-source-says-2025-08-21/

[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2030234/openai-says-it-will-use-googles-cloud-for-chatgpt

[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/165238/zuckerberg-pledges-hundreds-of-billions-for-ai-data-centers-in-superintelligence-push

[4] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-signs-10-billion-plus-cloud-deal-google


This is one product we can hope will appear here.. (Score:3)

by Tony Isaac ( 1301187 )

[1]https://killedbygoogle.com/ [killedbygoogle.com]

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

So as your consumer electronics adviser, I am advising you to donate your
current VCR to a grate resident, who will laugh sardonically and hurl it
into a dumpster. Then I want you to go out and purchase a vast array of
8-millimeter video equipment.

... OK! Got everything? Well, *too bad, sucker*, because while you were
gone the electronics industry came up with an even newer format that makes
your 8-millimeter VCR look as technologically advanced as toenail dirt.
This format is called "3.5 hectare" and it will not be made available until
it is outmoded, sometime early next week, by a format called "Elroy", so
*order yours now*.
-- Dave Barry, "No Surrender in the Electronics Revolution"