tedladd

Communications for @googlecloud. Formerly @stripe, @salesforce, @microsoft. Ping-Pong expert, modernist fiction fan, and maker of mean Manhattans.

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

The aggregate water consumption of U.S. data centers is small — they use less than 1% of the water that Americans use on their lawns annually. Nevertheless, we are focused on protecting local water resources in all aspects of our data center operations.

Today we’re announcing new water stewardship commitments as part of our promise to responsibly manage vital water resources in places we build and operate data centers. With these initiatives, we will:

💧 Replenish more water than we consume at our sites by 2030. We have 165 water stewardship projects across 97 watersheds. They are expected to replenish more than 19 billion gallons of water annually by 2030, more than double our 2024 consumption.

👷 Help update public water infrastructure with reliable, affordable water sources. In addition to paying for the water we use, to date, we have committed over $500 million to the development of water, wastewater and water reuse infrastructure and to utility partners in our data center communities.

🛟 Protect at-risk watersheds with air-cooled solutions. We only consider water cooling if local resources are healthy and resilient. If a water source is at high risk, we choose air cooling or recycled water.

✏️ Report our annual water use transparently. We were the first major cloud provider to disclose our annual water use for our data center locations.

♻️ Pursue alternative and reclaimed solutions to protect water resources. We’re working with utility partners to identify alternatives to using freshwater at our data centers.

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

New stat from @vercel's AI Gateway in @BusinessInsider: Gemini 3 Flash is leading across AI models in token usage as of April. 🚀 See more stats on how developers are using our models → https://t.co/0xbulg4X2S

📊via @BusinessInsider

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

TPU 8t, optimized for training and TPU 8i, optimized for inference.

Looking good!

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

Read the new Bloomberg @Business feature on how we're building full-stack infrastructure, including custom silicon, to benefit customers today. Stay tuned for more updates this week at #GoogleCloudNext
https://t.co/3YYZZN9Vdc

[tedladd @tedladd]

Big news today https://t.co/FuJHf7aksv

[John Collison @collision]

Tomorrow on Cheeky Pint: @sundarpichai gets into everything AI with @eladgil and me.

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

"When [Sundar] Pichai says he’s taking a decade-long view of where the technology is going, it’s not just a platitude. That universal assistant he wrote about in that 2016 shareholder letter? Google is on the cusp of creating it" — @FastCompany’s new cover story on Google and AI. https://t.co/mOO17KvMsk

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Google is now the first cloud provider to integrate 1 GW of flexible demand into long-term utility contracts. Our ability to shift or reduce our energy demand when it’s needed can help utility companies balance supply/ demand and plan for future capacity needs.

This is a big milestone for responsible data center growth and helps keep costs lower for local communities.

https://t.co/yagskz6Wq7

[tedladd @tedladd]

Power goes out on our flight connected to the gate—it’s been 40 minutes—and the flight attendants are just standing there staring at their phones. One of them flipping through a manual. Full flight boarded with luggage—in the dark. Masterclass in poor communication. @AlaskaAir

[Google Public Policy @googlepubpolicy]

We testified today before @housescience on the importance of permitting and transmission reform to America's future. The country's current grid is struggling to keep pace with growth, and modernization is needed to lower costs.

We proposed three solutions. (1/6)

[tedladd @tedladd]

Great story about the progress made within Google over the last few years. Lots more to do! https://t.co/IAb9FZK7Ws

[tedladd @tedladd]

Hiring alert: Daniel Gabis has an amazing, newly opened role on his team leading Partner PR at @googlecloud. This is your chance to work in a high-growth environment, close to the business, with an excellent manager. Apply below today! https://t.co/HOFrYBzq8t

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

This is incredible. Worth two minutes.

[tedladd @tedladd]

Happy Gemini 3 day for all who celebrate

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Geminiii

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

I’m really excited about our release of Gemini 3 today, the result of hard work by many, many people in the Gemini team and all across Google! 🎊

We’ve built many exciting new product experiences with it, as you’ll see today and in the coming weeks and months.

You can find it today on @GeminiApp and AI Mode in Search. For developers, you can build with it now in @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex AI.

https://t.co/KRV0xzniBY

The model performs quite well on a wide range of benchmarks.

[tedladd @tedladd]

The new "front door" for AI in the enterprise https://t.co/0Loh1DxANi

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Congrats to Michel Devoret, John Martinis, and John Clarke on the Nobel Prize in Physics. 🔬🥼 Michel is chief scientist of hardware at our Quantum AI lab and John Martinis led the hardware team for many years.

Their pioneering work in quantum mechanics in the 1980s made recent breakthroughs possible, and paved the way for error-corrected quantum computers to come.

I was just at our quantum lab in Santa Barbara yesterday seeing the incredible progress, hope they are celebrating today. Feeling lucky this morning to work at a company that has had 5 Nobel Laureates among our ranks - 3 prizes in 2 years!

[tedladd @tedladd]

From using AI and Pixel phones to fix subway tracks, to building a virtual teaching assistant in days, Google Public Sector's Rapid Innovation Team could be the "secret sauce" for public sector agencies looking to innovate quickly: https://t.co/Is0AplAUnZ

[Rangers Nation ⚾️ @Rangers__Nation]

The 2025 Texas Rangers broke the all-time MLB record for team fielding percentage, posting a remarkable .99112 and surpassing the previous record of .99104 set by the 2013 Orioles

Texas also led baseball in team ERA (3.47), but were fourth to last in team AVG (.234) and OPS (.683)

Stat credit: @JeffWilsonTXR

[tedladd @tedladd]

It's not often that my twin passions of golf and @googlecloud intersect, but this story in @FastCompany hits the sweet spot (pun intended): https://t.co/YoHC3fox7Q