Google and Meta giants have a lot of riding in AI’s growth and success, and support efforts, have caused significant amounts of money to make the technology hungry.
On Tuesday, Google has been announced that it plans to invest $ 25 billion data centers and other AI infrastructure tied to PJM Interconnection, the largest US electric grid. PJM interconnection reaches the entire 13 states in the eastern half of the US. New data centers are expected to be in and around Pennsylvania.
To help energy demands of new data centers, Google also says it Investment $ 3 billion in hydropower. That use of a renewable source of energy is compatible with google’s purpose in be free carbon by 2030. (Similarly, the meta intends to achieve Net-Zero Emits at 2030.)
“I think there is a race in the co -to data centers nearly reliable, most and cheap energy sources,” Ramayya KrishnanProfessor of Management Science and Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University’s University’s Heinz College.
The arrival of Geneative AI Tools Like Chatgpt, Geogle’s Gemini and Meta AI facilitates the demands of data centers, also supporting daily exclusion tasks such as photo streaming and streaming the picture.
“Data centers are a critical part of AI’s production process and its deployment,” Krishnan said. “Think of them as AI factories.”
Google is already working Dose to data centers around the world.
Google’s announcement arrives at the same day President Donald Trump attends an energy summit at Carnegie Mello University in Pittsburgh in which Investment in AI an important subject.
On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company invests in “hundreds of billions of dollars” in computing to make AI more than human capabilities.
Zuckerberg mean that the meta has “many multi-gw clusters” in the works. “We call the first Prometheus and come online at ’26. We also build a hyperion, which is capable of scaling up to 5GW for years.” Last year, Zuckerberg introduces one of the most recent meta data centers, a 2GW facility built in Louisiana.
These facilities will be mammoth. To a Post threadsZuckerberg shows the outline of a data center to hide “a significant part of the Manhattan footprint.”
While large new data centers were established, that can bring opportunities and repair communities near them
To a new Airesale by modine survey of 600 Americans, 70% of respondents say they cannot think of living near a data center and remain optimistic that facilities positive impact on their community. Among those who defied data centers built near their homes, their highest concerns involve increased energy demand, noise in the noise and hits of property value.
Krishnan explained potential pluses and minus. Data centers can rise to energy prices for residential customers if energy supply is limited, and they also use significant amounts of water, which can also be environmental concerns.
“On a positive part,” says Krishnan, “Data centers can create an eco-system associates with the rise of regional job opportunities and (consequences) growth.”
