Google To Pay Homes and Businesses To Curb Energy Usage

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by The Information (teasers) at 22 Oct, 15:48 UTC

Google said it is partnering with energy company Voltus to pay homes and businesses to curb electricity use during peak hours, in the latest effort to mitigate the data center boom’s impact on power demand. The companies on Thursday announced what they call a 1-gigawatt “virtual power plant,” ...