{"id":19469,"date":"2025-07-16T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/google-inks-3bn-us-hydropower-deal-as-it-expands-energy-hungry-datacenters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:37:38","slug":"google-inks-3bn-us-hydropower-deal-as-it-expands-energy-hungry-datacenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/google-inks-3bn-us-hydropower-deal-as-it-expands-energy-hungry-datacenters\/","title":{"rendered":"Google inks $3bn US hydropower deal as it expands energy-hungry datacenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tech giant will buy 3GW of US hydropower in deal to fuel AI and data center growth across eastern states<\/p>\n<p>Google has agreed to secure as much as 3GW of US hydropower in the world\u2019s largest corporate clean power pact for hydroelectricity, the company said on Tuesday, as big tech pursues the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters.<\/p>\n<p>The deal between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google\">Google<\/a> and Brookfield Asset Management includes initial 20-year power purchase agreements, totaling $3bn, for electricity generated from two hydropower facilities in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/16\/google-hydropower-deal-clean-energy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ea5f8062ff418045376226aea45d9cc564bc1964\/417_0_4167_3335\/master\/4167.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1dfc6d15a6acfd1ddfbcaa72b8a859c3\" title=\"Google inks $3bn US hydropower deal as it expands energy-hungry datacenters\" \/>The tech giant will buy 3GW of US hydropower in deal to fuel AI and data center growth across eastern states<br \/>\nGoogle has agreed to secure as much as 3GW of US hydropower in the world\u2019s largest corporate clean power pact for hydroelectricity, the company said on Tuesday, as big tech pursues the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters.<br \/>\nThe deal between Google and Brookfield Asset Management includes initial 20-year power purchase agreements, totaling $3bn, for electricity generated from two hydropower facilities in Pennsylvania. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech giant will buy 3GW of US hydropower in deal to fuel AI and data center growth across eastern states Google has agreed to secure as much as 3GW of US hydropower in the world\u2019s largest corporate clean power pact for hydroelectricity, the company said on Tuesday, as big tech pursues the expansion of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/google-inks-3bn-us-hydropower-deal-as-it-expands-energy-hungry-datacenters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google inks $3bn US hydropower deal as it expands energy-hungry datacenters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}