Google to Tap Geothermal Energy for Nevada Data Center Campus
Google to Tap Geothermal Energy for Nevada Data Center Campus Racks of servers inside a Google data center. (Photo: Google) Google will soon begin using geothermal energy to power its data centers in Nevada with carbon-free energy, the company said today. Google becomes the first hyperscale cloud operator to tap the earth’s own heat to power its servers, an approach that can provide green energy around the clock, addressing one of the key challenges with wind and solar energy. Google will work with clean-energy startup Fervo Energy to develop a next-generation geothermal power project that ...
Source: datacenterfrontier.com