Google announced on Tuesday that it has finalized a $ 2 billion coract with Brookfield to buy water from the company.
The first clauses of the agreeme include a 5 -year electricity purchase coract, which is a total of $ 5 billion and a capacity of 2 megawatts of two water plas in Pennsylvania. The agreeme is part of a broader coract that allows Google to buy up to 5 GW of electricity capacity.
Google has turned to water electricity to supply its dataceers
The agreeme comes as Google and the company’s main competitors, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft, are seeking electricity for their data ceers. These data ceers are used to maiain, train and host artificial ielligence tools; Tools that are the founder of the curre boom in the technology sector.
The new demand for technology companies has re -enhanced nuclear energy, reinforced gas power generation, and re -focused atteion on renewable energy. Google has invested tens of billions of dollars to ensure sustainable electricity.
Meta has also bought a nuclear power pla, and Microsoft has signed a coract to supply electricity from a nuclear power pla.
In addition, investing in renewable energy provides an attractive opportunity for these companies to coinue moving in the Net-Zero target, even by increasing carbon emissions caused by the expansion of their data ceers.
Brokenfield Renewable Energy Partners, which runs renewable energy power plas in the United States, announced that its two power plas in Pennsylvania, Holtwood and Saif Harbor will be renovated and upgraded to impleme new requiremes.
Experts have warned, however, that the supply of artificial ielligence datasers can become a new challenge for companies. It may also challenge the high power consumption of these ceers.
