Google to Use Natural Gas to Power Massive Data Center in Texas

A planned gas-fired power plant at a Google data center in Texas would generate up to 4.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, more than the city of San Francisco.

Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google ​have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over ...
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Google formally announces plans for Botetourt County data center

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. — March 26, 2026 – Google today announced plans to develop a data center campus in Botetourt County, ...
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Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...