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Google Incentivizes Households and Businesses to Cut Electricity Use, Liberating Grid Capacity for Data Centers
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As artificial intelligence (AI) data centers' electricity consumption keeps surging, tech firms are grappling with power supply shortages. To tackle this challenge, Google has teamed up with energy service providers to establish virtual power plants. By offering financial rewards, households and businesses are motivated to proactively curtail their electricity usage during peak demand hours or when the grid faces strain, with some adjustments being made automatically. This program pools decentralized energy-saving potential to allocate grid capacity for data centers. The virtual power plant's peak power capacity rivals that of a sizable nuclear reactor, and it's anticipated to achieve its projected scale within the next few years.
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