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Google and Brookfield Asset Management have announced a 20-year framework agreement for up to 3GW of hydropower to provide electricity to its datacentres.
Google and CoreWeave are investing billions of dollars in artificial-intelligence infrastructure in Pennsylvania. It’s part of an AI summit featuring President Donald Trump as he looks to encourage domestic investment in the state.
The summit was held July 15 at Carnegie Mellon University and featured top executives in energy and AI, global investors, among others.
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During the summit held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 15, companies promised new data centers, new jobs, cybersecurity education, energy research, and more.
The 20-year agreement will allow Holtwood and Safe Harbor dams to provide up to 3,000 megawatts to assist Google's operations.
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Google will also spend more than $3 billion to modernize two hydropower plants in Pennsylvania to help meet growing demand from data centers in the region.
The owner of hydroelectric plants at Holtwood and Safe Harbor in Pennsylvania has agreed to sell Google massive amounts of electricity generated by the Susquehanna River dams to power some Google data centers.
Google has agreed to secure as much as 3 gigawatts of U.S. hydropower in the world's largest corporate clean power pact for hydroelectricity, the company said on Tuesday, as Big Tech pursues the expansion of energy-hungry data centers.