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The first mass-timber office building for Google and for the city of Sunnyvale, Calif., is designed for energy efficiency and to support occupants’ comfort and wellbeing.

Google agreement with Nevada regulators to provide geothermal power for data centers is the latest step in its quest for a lower-carbon supply in the next five years. 

The capabilities, including applying AI to crowdsourced imagery for automated roadway asset detection and inspection, will be generally available later this year.

Early coordination helped the Structure Tone-Turner Construction joint-venture partnership tackle challenges such as installing professionally engineered supported scaffolding in the theater’s acoustic ceiling and crane picks from the street that involved placing mechanical units on the roof and three terraces.

The power source is gaining ground from emerging technology, cost reduction, private investment and possible buy in from the new administration.

Amazon also follows Microsoft in spinning up nuclear energy, with plan to build small reactors in Washington state and Virginia and leading $500 investment in SMR technology.

The Office of Energy Justice and Equity at the U.S. Dept. of Energy held its second annual Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Connect Summit April 17-18 at the SoCalGas Energy Resource Center in Downey, Calif.

$3-billion, 882-MW Moray West project, set to finish by early 2025, has signed power deals with tech firms—with Google announcing Feb. 1 a new large wind agreement with Shell and Mitsubishi.

Construction is expected to start in 2024 on the project to re-develop the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago.

The world has been captivated recently by generative artificial intelligence technologies like ChatGPT and Google, and there have been many conversations within organizations and in the media about their capabilities and limitations.