Google's release of its Gemini 3 large language model (LLM) in November—trained primarily on the company's in-house TPU chips and performing at or above the level of OpenAI's ChatGPT—has become a catalyst for a broader strategic push. According to overseas reports, Google is now using its newest advances in AI models to pitch major clients, including Meta, on deploying TPU-based systems inside Google-operated data centers.

The US Department of Defense has awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise a ten-year, US$931 million contract to build a hybrid cloud system that will support the Pentagon's expanding artificial intelligence and data processing needs. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will deploy HPE's GreenLake Private Cloud platform across multiple high-security military data centers to strengthen the department's classified computing capabilities.