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Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms
It needs more renewable energy for AI data centers.
It’s partnering with energy company Intersect Power and investment firm TPG Rise Climate on a $20 billion initiative to develop an unspecified number of “industrial parks” across the US this decade. But tech companies ought to be thinking about bringing data centers to places where renewable energy is plentiful, Intersect Power CEO Sheldon Kimber tells The Verge. Compared to traditional data centers built to shepherd people’s emails and videos, latency isn’t as big of an issue for new facilities used to train AI.
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