Google and NV Energy have partnered to harness geothermal energy to build more environmentally friendly data centres.
The partnership was confirmed by NV Energy’s president and CEO, Doug Cannon seen by Newsng on Thursday.
As per the statement, energy regulators in the state of Nevada are presently reviewing the partnership.
Geothermal energy has the potential to be a dependable and sustainable replacement for conventional power sources like coal and natural gas since it uses naturally occurring subterranean heat to create electricity.
Should the collaboration be accepted, Google would have far more access to geothermal energy—it will go from 3.5 megawatts to 115 megawatts in six years.
The deal is part of Google and Berkshire Hathaway’s ongoing low-carbon energy relationship in Nevada.
Newsng understands that the collaboration is a component of Google’s goal to run all of its operations on low-carbon electricity by 2030 resulting in the creation of the clean transition tariff, which Google defined as “a long-term energy agreement that can facilitate investments into new projects that deliver clean firm capacity to the grid.”
“NV Energy and Google’s partnership to develop new solutions to bring clean, firm energy technology — like enhanced geothermal — onto Nevada’s grid at this scale is remarkable,” stated Cannon.
To address the growing demand for computing power, Google has already committed almost $4 billion to the expansion of its US data centre network.
“This allows customers to meet their growing electricity demand with 24/7 CFE (carbon-free energy) through their existing utility relationship and share in the long-term benefits that these projects provide, like increasing the share of clean and reliable power,” the company also said.
We earlier reported that Google announced plans to invest €1 billion ($1.1 billion) to expand its main data centre in Finland due to the location’s access to green energy
