The investment is to create more data centers in the Nordic countries. What is expected to happen and how they will work in these countries.
Google data centers.
Googleowned by Alphabet, will invest others 1.1 billion dollars in the expansion of its data center campus in Finland. Is to drive the growth of your artificial intelligence business (IA) in Europe, the company announced in a statement on Monday.
In recent years, Many data centers were located in the Nordic countries due to the region’s cooler climate, tax breaks and the abundant availability of renewable energy.
Nordic countries should use renewable energy
The Nordic neighbors of Finland, Sweden and Norwaya, have recently become increasingly critical of the idea of hosting them, and some industry experts maintain that the Nordic countries They should use their renewable energy for products like green steelwhich could leave greater surplus value in the countries.
But heFinland’s wind capacity increase so quickly in recent years, a 75% to reach 5,677 megawatts in 2022 alone, that on windy days prices have plummeted to the point of being negative, according to sector statistics. Therefore, there continues to be Renewable capacity available for data centers like Google’swhich purchases wind energy in Finland with long-term contracts.
The Analysts believe that data center energy consumption will increase massively due to the rapid growth in the use of AI, which Google also cited as one of the reasons for its investment decision, along with its Hamina data center in Finland now running on 97% carbon-free energy.
Google data centers
“The heat coming out of our Finnish data center will be redirected to the district heating network of nearby Haminawhich covers homes, schools and local utility buildings”, Google said in the statement. He added that his goal is achieve net zero emissions across its operations and value chain by 2030.
In addition to his finnish investment, The search and cloud giant announced last month that it would build new data centers in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Source: Ambito
