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Big Tech is rushing to find clean power to fuel AI’s insatiable appetite

Big Tech is rushing to find clean power to fuel AI’s insatiable appetite
A Fervo Energy crew work at a geothermal-energy drill site in Utah. (Image: Lindsay D’Addato for WSJ)
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By Jennifer Hiller and Amrith Ramkumar Tech giants swore just a few years ago that they would slash their carbon emissions. Then they got swept up in artificial-intelligence mania.The scramble to build AI data centres that require massive amounts of energy is upending the industry’s climate pledges and spurring it to work with power producers to speed development of new clean-energy sources. In Nevada, Google is teaming up with a utility to buy power generated from heat beneath the earth’s surface. In the Carolinas, G...

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