data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google has signed a deal with French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies to purchase 1.5 Terawatt hours of electricity from the as-yet-unfinished Montpelier solar farm over the next 15 years, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://totalenergies.com/news/press-releases/united-states-totalenergies-supply-renewable-power-googles-data-centers-15″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://totalenergies.com/news/press-releases/united-states-totalenergies-supply-renewable-power-googles-data-centers-15″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>the company announced. The 50 MW facility is nearing completion, but with this deal, it may end up sending the majority of its generated power to Google data centers, leaving little benefit to local communities – data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-center-boom-sends-some-wholesale-electricity-prices-soaring-up-to-267-percent-in-five-years-says-report-as-global-rollout-of-ai-factories-continues-apace” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-center-boom-sends-some-wholesale-electricity-prices-soaring-up-to-267-percent-in-five-years-says-report-as-global-rollout-of-ai-factories-continues-apace”>an all too common problem with recent data center infrastructure projects.
The Montpelier facility is…
