Goal has signed a contract with Google Cloudfor an approximate value of 10,000 million dollars, that will allow you to use your cloud for six years. According to The Information, the main use will give to Google cloud computing services are related to AI infrastructure.
Although Meta and Google rival in certain areas, such as online advertising, the signing of this contract is not an obstacle to any. In fact, Google has signed contracts on Cloud Computing in recent months with several companies with which it maintains some rivalry. This is the case of the contract he signed with OpenAI last June, which will allow the company to use its cloud computing resources. Among them, their TPUS.
This contract with goal has been a few weeks after its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, confirmed that the company is determined to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in computing, with the aim of facilitating their work for the development of what they call superintelligence. In fact, part of the company is preparing to devote itself to it, as it has been demonstrated with the restructuring of its artificial intelligence group and its division into four areas focused on both research to achieve it and facilitate everything related to it.
To do this, goal needs to get access to all cloud infrastructure, and in addition to operating and investing in own data centers, it has shown its commitment to use the cloud services of Amazon and Microsoft, in addition to Google’s.
Googlefor its part, it is Trying to get high level contracts, in an effort to gain ground in the cloud With respect to its main rivals in the sector: AWS and Microsoft Azure. As Alphabet has confirmed, its matrix, in the second quarter of this year Google Cloud has had operational revenues of 2,830 million dollars, with 13.6 billion total revenues. The growth of income in that period of the division was 32%.