Google Greenwashes Data Centre Power Consumption With Voltus VPP

The claim: Google and Voltus are partnering to construct a 1-gigawatt virtual power plant designed to aggregate distributed energy resources and boost grid reliability for 67 million people living near major data centre hubs.

The reality: This is a sophisticated demand-response mechanism to manage the immense power draw of Tensor Processing Unit clusters, shifting consumption away from peak hours to avoid municipal brownouts that threaten uptime.

Why should I care? Could be big
Big tech is now managing the local power grid just to keep their own energy-hungry servers running without public backlash.

Read the original: We are working with Voltus to build a 1-gigawatt virtual power plant.