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Not surprisingly, Google is hopeless for more power: company’s data centers are more than electricity in just four years.
The eye generating stat comes from Google The latest durability sheetIt was released in late last week. In 2024, Google data centers used 30.8 million megawatts of electricity. This broke the consumption of Google Data Center for 14.4 million megawatts in 2020, the earliest year.
Google decided to use only carbon-free sources to strengthen their operations and use a task that is more difficult with the growth rate of the data center.
And the company’s electricity woes are almost completely a data center problem. In 2024, the data centers accounted for 95.8% of the entire company’s e-budget.
The company’s information center – the ratio of everything, drew a lot in the last four years. Although the earliest year in 2020, Google Data Center has developed the figures of electricity, and it is possible to use this proportion to retreat in time. Some fast mathematics show that Google’s data centers use only 4 million megawatts of electricity in 2014. This is a seven-layer increase in just a decade.
Tech has already selected the effectiveness of the information centers already selected most of the low-hanged fruits. These efforts have paid the money and the company is often praised to be on the leading edge. But as Efficiency of the company’s power use (Pue), 1,0 approached the theoretical ideal, and progress slowed down. Last year, Google’s company was extensive than 1.09, 2023, but more than 0.02 years ago.
It is clear that Google needs more electricity and has invested a lot of energy sources, including geothermal, including civilized energy sources, including a number of energy sources.
Promises for the operations of the Geothermal Information Center. Touching on ground temperature, advanced geothermal power plants can produce consistent electricity, regardless of weather conditions. And including many beginners, including Google Supported Fervo EnergyIt is possible to dig a profitable well in more places.
On the side of the nuclear fusion, Google announced that he would do last week Invest in unity fusion systems It is planned to buy 200 megawatts of electricity from the upcoming arc station and will be online in early 2030. In the world of nuclear fission, Google promised to take 500 megawatts of electricity From the power of Kairosthe beginning of a small module reactor.
Nuclear deals should still be strength – and they will not be five years or more. Meanwhile, the company is an updated energy purchase company. The company bought in May Sun capacity 600 megawatts Has announced an agreement in South Carolina and January 700 megawatts in Oklahoma. Google said, in 2024, the capacity of intersection and TPG has been working with the climate A few Gigawatt ‘worth Carbon free power plants, $ 20 billion in investment.
Given that the sun and (a smaller extent) are not only two sources of power to the end of the wind that exists until the end of the wind, not surprising.
New nuclear power plants do not see the permission and installation of and even the most optimistic times, even the most optimistic graphs to the grid or data center. Natural gas where the United States is abundant is Hamstrung with five plus annual waiting lists for new turbines. Leaves updated updated with battery storage.
Google has signed a contract with enough renewable energy to match the total consumption, although these sources do not always deliver electrons when and where the company needs.
“We will reach the world to a 100%-year-old target, which will reach this 100%-year-old target, the leading energy head of Michael Terrell, Michael Terrell, told reporters last week. “The last game was always 24/7 carbon-free energy every time we operate.”
There are things to do on Google.
In the world, the company, carbon free electricity is equipped with an electricity, about 66% of the information center. However, these secondary documents on some regional problems. Latin American data centers amounted to 92% last year, which is only 5% of its Middle East and African devices.
These obstacles said that it is invested in the investment in a stable, carbon-free sources as a phonit and fusion. “Finally, we will need to have these technologies to achieve this goal,” he said.
