Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- Google has struck a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than $10 billion, the search giant's second big agreement recently after one with OpenAI.

Under the agreement, Meta will use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking and other services.

The news comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's comments in July that the company would speundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers.

The company raised the bottom end of its annual capital expenditures forecast by $2 billion, to a range of $66 billion to $72 billion last month.

Meta is seeking outside partners to help it fund the massive infrastructure needed to power AI by offloading $2 billion in data center assets, the...