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 It plans to invest $ 25 billion in data centers and other AI infrastructure, which is the largest electric grid in the United States. 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.
Google, Google, also said to help meet new data centers’ energy requirements Invest in Billion 3 Billion in Hydropower. This use of renewable energy source is in accordance with Google’s purpose Be carbon -free By 2030. (Likewise, Meta is to get Net zero emissions By 2030).
“I think is a race to share reliable, too much and close data centers near cheap sources of energy,” Ramia KrishnanProfessor of Management Science and Information System at Heinz College at Carnegie Melneon University.
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 works Dozens of data centers Worldwide.
Google’s announcement comes the same day that President Donald Trump is attending an energy meeting at Pittsburg at Carnegie Melman University. Investing in AI An important title.
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 Meta’s latest data centers, 2GW facility Is being built in Louisiana.
These facilities can be huge. A Post on the threadsZuckerberg showed the outline of a single 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 Arydeale of 600 Americans Moodine Survey, 70 % of respondents said they would have no objection to staying close to the data center and they hope there will be facilities. 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. “