Tech companies have been racing o to set up data centers essential for powering generative artificial intelligence applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which require

Tech giant Google is the latest company to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump ’s inaugural fund, following in the footsteps of other major corporations such as Amazon, Meta, Uber and OpenAI. The company donated to Trump’s inaugural fund on Monday, according to CNBC.

Some donors didn’t contribute to Biden’s fund, but the outgoing president received big donations from other companies.

Microsoft said on Thursday that it is making a $1 million donation to the inauguration fund of President-elect Donald Trump. TakeAway Points: Microsoft has contributed $500,000 for President-elect Donald Trump’s first term and is now contributing $1 million to his inauguration fund.

What’s at stake: The hurry before the president-elect’s inauguration on January 20 underscores the EU’s insecurity over his potential actions when he returns to the White House, following his recent threats. These include refusing to rule out taking Greenland by force and suggesting Canada and the Panama Canal should become part of the US.

Trump, who returns to the White House after January 20's inauguration, has raked in substantially more money from tech companies than Biden did for his 2021 inaugu

Google has announced a USD 1 million donation to President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration, along with plans to provide livestreaming and direct online access to the event. Karan Bhatia, Google’s global head of government affairs and public policy,

Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are each donating $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining the roster of technology companies shelling out to back the incoming US president’s festivities later this month.

Donald Trump announced a $20 billion investment by Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani to build data centers in the U.S. The move aligns with the tech industry's race to enhance AI capabilities. Global spending on data centers is projected to exceed $250 billion by 2030.

Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is open to meeting President-elect Donald Trump at his resort but hasn't received an invitation yet. Other notable tech leader