NOAA selects Google Cloud for weather supercomputing

NOAA has announced that it is selecting Google Cloud as the primary provider of high-performance computing infrastructure for its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS).

• NOAA will transition to Google Cloud’s H4D virtual machines for operational numerical weather prediction, moving one of the first major global weather centers to the public cloud.
• The collaboration is described as enabling greater scale, speed, and AI capabilities for massive simulations, improved prediction models, and faster early warnings; the source is a Google Cloud blog and not a standalone NOAA release in the provided text.