(Oil Price) – Google has signed the first U.S. corporate power purchase agreement involving natural gas with carbon capture, marking a major shift in how Big Tech plans to fuel the data-hungry future of artificial intelligence. The deal centers on the Broadwing Project, a 400-megawatt gas-fired power plant planned for Decatur, Illinois, developed by privately held Low Carbon Infrastructure. The plant
(Oil Price)– Google has signed a $3-billion agreement to source electricity for data centers from Brookfield Asset Management’s hydropower facilities, in the world’s largest corporate clean power deal for hydroelectricity, the asset manager said on Tuesday. The first contracts executed under the agreement to deliver up to 3 gigawatts (GW) of carbon-free hydroelectric capacity across the United States are for Brookfield’s
CNBC Google and Chevron are part of a $250 million funding raise announced Tuesday for TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup with an unconventional strategy that has now raised a total of $1.2 billion. Nuclear fusion is often referred to as the holy grail of clean energy because of its promise of generating nearly unlimited emission-free energy without the equivalent harmful, long-lasting radioactive waste
CNBC Google has pledged to stop building customized artificial intelligence (AI) tools that help oil and gas firms to extract fossil fuels worldwide. The pledge came after a Greenpeace report on Tuesday highlighted how Google, Microsoft, and Amazon use AI and warehouse servers to help the likes of Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil to locate and retrieve oil and gas deposits from the earth. A Google spokesperson confirmed to CNBC
400 users of Google’s Waymo self-driving cars, ages 9-69, are using the service to go to work, school, shopping, entertainment – and rating it From KTAR News PHOENIX — A select group of Arizonans has been shuttling around the Phoenix area in self-driving cars for the past year, providing insight into the future of the technology. Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company,
