Google is striving to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, a goal complicated by the growing energy needs of its artificial intelligence data centers.
On Thursday, the tech giant announced a significant agreement to purchase power from a large energy park in India, as reported by Recharge News. This energy park, developed by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, will span 500 square kilometers—approximately five times the size of Paris. Once completed, it will have a capacity of 30 gigawatts (GW), which includes 26 GW from solar energy and 4 GW from wind power.
Google, alongside Meta Platforms and Amazon, will begin receiving power from this massive project in the third quarter of 2025.
Additionally, Google signed another agreement on Thursday to secure power for 12 years from a 435-megawatt solar farm in New York, which will be constructed by Energyre.
In a related development, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is exploring the option of purchasing energy from nuclear power sources. CEO Sundar Pichai shared with the Japanese newspaper Nikkei that the company is considering nuclear energy to support its data centers.
This comes on the heels of Microsoft signing a deal with Constellation Energy to do the same. As part of this agreement, Constellation will restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, the site of the most severe nuclear accident in U.S. history, which occurred in 1978.
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