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New deal, same AI-fueled hunger
Google is apparently not satisfied with just owning the internet. Now it’s helping launch a clean energy project in West Virginia with MN8 and Eos, which sounds a little more like a utility-company group chat than a Big Tech headline.
Why you should care
This matters because AI doesn’t run on vibes — it runs on electricity. Alphabet has been leaning harder into infrastructure and energy sourcing as cloud demand and AI compute needs keep rising, so deals like this help keep the future training runs powered without turning every data center into a giant guilt trip.
The bigger picture
West Virginia gets a cleaner-energy project and Google gets a little more room to say, “Yes, we’re building the future — responsibly.” The market usually likes this kind of move because it signals long-term capital discipline around a very real bottleneck: power.
Big picture: when your business is basically becoming an electricity consumer with a search engine attached, clean energy partnerships start to look less like PR and more like survival strategy.