Tech companies are too much riding on the development and success of AI in Google and Meta, and to support these efforts, they are also committing significant money to build data centers that they need to operate with electric hungry technology.
On Tuesday, Google announced that it intends to invest $ 25 billion in US -largest electric grid, PJM -linked data centers and other AI infrastructure. In the eastern half of the United States, PJM’s bilateral relations reach 13 states. New data centers are expected to be in Pennsylvania and around it.
To help meet the energy requirements of the new data centers, Google also said it would invest $ 3 billion in hydropower. This use of renewable energy sources is aimed at becoming Google’s carbon -free by 2030. (Similarly, the purpose of the meta is to achieve pure zero emissions by 2030.)
Ramia Krishnan, a professor of Management Science and Information System at Heinz College at Carnegie Melman University, “I think is a race to share reliable, very high energy data centers.”
Chat GPT, Google’s Geniyan and Meta AI, are accelerating demands related to data centers, which also support daily cloud computing works such as photo -sharing and movie streaming.
“Data centers are an important part of the AI production process and its deployment,” Krishnan said. “Think of them like AI factories.”
Google already operates dozens of data centers worldwide.
Google’s announcement comes the same day that President Donald Trump is attending an energy meeting at Pittsburg at an energy meeting at the University of Carnegie Melman, in which investment in AI is an important topic.
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said his company would invest in computing hundreds of dollars in computing for the construction of sprintallins, which is a high desire to make AI, which will overtake human capacity.
Zuckerberg said that there are “multi -GW clusters” in meta works. “We are first calling a promotase and it’s coming online in ’26. We are also making a hyperian, which can scale up to 5GW in many years.” Earlier this year, Zuckerberg introduced one of the latest Meta data centers, being built in Louisiana, a 2GW facility.
These facilities can be huge. In a post on the threads, Zuckerberg showed the same data center that would include “an important part of Manhattan maps”.
As large figures build large centers, it can find both opportunities and pressures in their close communities.
In a recent Arydel of the 600 -American Moody Survey, 70 % of the respondents said they would have no objection to staying close to the data center and they hope that these facilities will have a positive impact on their community. In people who oppose data centers near their homes, their high concerns increase energy demand, noise pollution and increase in property prices.
Krishnan noted possible plus and minutes. If energy supply is limited, data centers can increase energy prices for residential consumers, and they also use significant water quantities, which can cause environmental concerns.
“On the positive aspect,” data centers can create an environmental system of partners to increase employment opportunities in the region and increase (consequently) growth, Krishnan said. “
