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Company

Google

Google (Alphabet, NASDAQ: GOOGL) develops AI, cloud computing, and autonomous driving technology.

Founded
1998
Status
Public
Regulatory status2 FDA 510(k) clearances

Google holds 2 FDA 510(k) clearances, per the DEPLOY registry.

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CategoryBiometric wearables

Overview

Google (Alphabet, NASDAQ: GOOGL) develops AI, cloud computing, and autonomous driving technology. Waymo is Alphabet's autonomous driving division. Google's DeepMind leads AI research, and Google Cloud provides AI infrastructure for robotics and physical AI companies.

Reality check

Project Suncatcher (company-claimed)

A prototype satellite with four Trillium TPUs, built with Planet, launched Oct 1 2026 and is operating; a two-satellite laser-link test follows in 2027.

Texas data center (company-claimed)

Sep 2026: Crusoe is developing Google's Armstrong County campus near Amarillo, powered by the adjacent Goodnight wind farms; first handoff early 2027.

Wyoming data center (company-claimed)

Oct 2026: Black Hills will supply about 2.7 GW to Google's planned Cheyenne data center through 2048, starting late 2027.

Nuclear deal (company-claimed)

Oct 2026: a 20-year deal with Constellation for 890 MW of uprates at 11 nuclear units; Google says it now supports 1.5 GW+ of new nuclear capacity.

Geothermal deal (company-claimed)

Sep 2026: 396 MW from Fervo's Cape Station geothermal plant in Utah, online 2028.

AEP Cheyenne fuel-cell PPA (company-claimed)

20-year PPA to take power from AEP-controlled Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC (702 MW Bloom fuel cells near Cheyenne, WY; COD targeted end of 2028).

Verified record

Verified deployments
2 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Founders

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Trades as Alphabet Inc. on Nasdaq (GOOGL).

AI research

DeepMind and Google Brain merged in 2023 as Google DeepMind.

Autonomous driving

Waymo, a separate Alphabet company

Google Cloud

AI infrastructure for robotics and physical AI; Gold tier in SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 3.0 (Sep 2026).

Pixel Watch

Pixel Watch 4 offers Loss of Pulse Detection (FDA De Novo, Feb 2025) plus Fitbit ECG and AFib features.

Goleta campus (Aug 2026)

Bought an 83,000 sq ft site for $32.5M, about 300,000 sq ft in total, for its Quantum AI lab with UCSB.

Michigan data center (regulator, Oct 2026)

Regulators conditionally approved DTE power contracts for the ~1 GW Project Cannoli site in Van Buren Township; first power December 2027.

Senate DC cost probe (reported, Oct 2026)

Warren/Van Hollen/Blumenthal report finds named AI DC operators are not covering full grid costs, still seek tax breaks, and use NDAs that limit community scrutiny of projects.

Van Buren site plan approved (reported, Oct 2026)

Van Buren Township Planning Commission voted 5-1 on Oct 14 2026 to approve the Project Cannoli final site plan and a high-voltage switching station.

Finland site halt (government-ordered, Oct 2026)

Finland's LVV ordered Google unit Tuike Finland to stop prep work at its Muhos and Kajaani (Otanmaki) data center sites until environmental impact assessments are done.

Muhos police inquiry (reported, Oct 2026)

Police opened a preliminary inquiry into land clearing at the Muhos site after a private complaint. Google said it fell short of its own standards and will comply.

West Memphis expansion (utility-stated, Oct 2026)

Entergy Arkansas says Google will fund about $600M of grid work plus a 440 MW solar PPA: 1,400 MWh of batteries due in 2028, a Galet substation expansion and two 230 kV lines.

West Memphis load ramp (reported, Oct 2026)

The amended contract raises Google's maximum demand and speeds its ramp at a campus earlier planned to reach 600 MW by 2029. Arkansas PSC approval is pending.

Finland clearing apology (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Google Finland country manager Antti Jarvinen apologised for clearing about 330 ha at Muhos and just under 200 ha at Kajaani before environmental assessments were done.

Goochland, VA site diligence (company-confirmed, Oct 2026)

Confirmed due diligence on a roughly 1,000-acre West Creek Business Park site for a potential 1,200 MW campus. No plans filed with the county yet.

Google Cloud Q3 2026 (company-reported)

Revenue rose 103% to $30.7B, led by GCP AI infrastructure and AI solutions, with TPU system sales a meaningful contributor.

Cloud backlog (company-stated, Q3 2026)

Google Cloud backlog was $561B at Sep 30 2026. Alphabet expects just over 55% of it to be recognized as revenue within 24 months.

Alphabet capex Q3 2026 (company-reported)

$51.4B in the quarter, mostly technical infrastructure. Kept 2026 guidance at $195B to $205B and expects a significant increase in 2027.

Suncatcher in-orbit inference (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Google said the prototype ran its onboard Gemma 4 model in orbit and downlinked its first response. Radiation and thermal tests are next, with twin linked satellites planned for 2027.

Data & sources

Company filings

2

Press releases

4

News coverage

7

Patent documents

5

Web sources

50

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Current platform

Google Cloud Melbourne (australia-southeast2)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Melbourne (australia-southeast2). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Sydney (australia-southeast1)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Sydney (australia-southeast1). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud São Paulo (south-america-east1)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving São Paulo (south-america-east1). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Delhi (asia-south2)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Delhi (asia-south2). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Mumbai (asia-south1)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Mumbai (asia-south1). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Seoul (asia-northeast3)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Seoul (asia-northeast3). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Osaka (asia-northeast2)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Osaka (asia-northeast2). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Tokyo (asia-northeast1)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Tokyo (asia-northeast1). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Taiwan (asia-east1)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Taiwan (asia-east1). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Jakarta (asia-southeast2)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Jakarta (asia-southeast2). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Google Cloud Singapore (asia-southeast1)

[Google](https://cloud.google.com) cloud computing region serving Singapore (asia-southeast1). Part of the Google Cloud global infrastructure network providing compute, storage, and AI/ML services.

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Current platform

Pixel Watch

Pixel Watch (made by Google, part of Alphabet; current model the Pixel Watch 4 from October 9, 2025) is a biometric-primary smartwatch with cardiac AI augmentation, recorded in the new biometric form factor under a new Google company entity, with its health stack running on Fitbit and Google Health algorithms since Google owns Fitbit. Its standout FDA clearance is Loss of Pulse Detection, cleared on February 26, 2025 as the first feature of its kind, which detects a loss-of-pulse event such as cardiac arrest, respiratory or circulatory failure, or overdose and automatically prompts a call to emergency services if the user is unresponsive, alongside the Fitbit-lineage ECG app cleared in 2020 and atrial-fibrillation notifications cleared in 2022 carried into the Pixel Watch. A cap-flag applies because Loss of Pulse Detection is not a cardiac-monitoring or diagnostic feature and is explicitly excluded for users with preexisting heart conditions or those needing cardiac monitoring, with Google noting it may not detect every instance, so marketing it as general heart safety for cardiac patients exceeds the indication, and the cited 98.7-percent sensitivity and 100-percent specificity ECG figures are Google-reported algorithm performance. Fitbit, also Google-owned through its 2021 acquisition, is recorded as a separate registry entity, and the Fitbit app was rebranded to Google Health on May 7, 2026 with an optional $9.99-per-month premium tier gating a Gemini-powered AI coach. Its clinical-validation posture is growing, anchored by the large Fitbit Heart Study and Google's own loss-of-pulse validation but with lower independent peer-review volume than Apple, and the exact loss-of-pulse FDA submission number and whether the Pixel Watch 4 adds net-new clearances beyond inherited features are not verified.

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Partnerships

Every company Google has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

131 total71 operating53 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1FANUC Corporation3× joint11 total
  2. 2NVIDIA3× joint119 total
  3. 3Apptronik2× joint17 total
  4. 4NASA Ames Research Center2× joint1 total
  5. 5ADP1× joint
  6. 6Advance Auto Parts1× joint1 total

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Relationships

Current leadership (1)

Founders (2)

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Former / Previously (30)

  • Jonathan Ross TPU Hardware Engineersecondary-verified
  • Corey Lynch Research Scientist, Robotics at Googlesecondary-verified
  • Ilya Gelfenbeyn Head of Google Assistant Investmentssecondary-verified
  • Helen Oleynikova Robotics Researchersecondary-verified
  • Vik Bajaj Scientist at Google Xsecondary-verified
  • Nancy Sun Engineer, Autonomous Vehiclessecondary-verified
  • Silvius Rus Engineering Directorsecondary-verified
  • Christian Bersch PM / Team Lead, Area 120 Roboticssecondary-verified
  • Jonas Witt Tech Lead, Bookbot (Area 120 / X)secondary-verified
  • Jake Stelman Hardware engineer (Google[x] / ATAP)secondary-verified
  • Anjali Jindal Naik Product Operations Managersecondary-verified
  • Noah Ready-Campbell Product Managersecondary-verified

Media (1)

Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.

Safety record

No incidents on record for Google.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

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Google on the data-center map

Every verified data center Google operates that has a mapped coordinate (113 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

Google data centers (114)

AI data centers Google operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.

Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

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Registry pages whose text names Google.

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