Google agrees to curb power use for AI data centers to ease strain on US grid when demand surges

Written by Laila Kirney

The company said on Monday that New York (Reuters) (Reuters) -Google has reached agreements with two electrical facilities in the United States to reduce energy consumption at the AI data center during times of high demand over the network, the company said on Monday.

The country’s facilities were immersed in electricity requests for the AI data centers for major technology, with a total of the total energy supply available for order in some areas.

This strong crisis has led to concerns about increasing bills for daily homes, businesses and power outages.

It also complicated the expansion of the technology industry in artificial intelligence, which requires huge amounts of electricity – quickly.

Google Conventions with Indiana Michigan Power and Tennessee will include the expansion of energy use in technology giant data centers when summoned by electrical facilities to edit the space on the network.

They are the first official agreements by Google in the application response programs with auxiliary tools to temporarily reduce the burdens of machine learning work, a sub -group of artificial intelligence.

“It allows the interconnection of large electricity loads like data centers more quickly, and helps reduce the need to build new power transmission and power plants, and helps network operators more effectively to manage energy networks,” Google said in a blog post.

Response programs are usually used by the other intensive energy industries such as heavy manufacturing or cryptocurrency mining. On the other hand, companies generally receive payments or shrinking energy bills.

Programs that involve artificial intelligence activity in data centers in general, and the details of the commercial arrangements between Google and the facilities are not clear.

While the response agreements apply only to a small part of the network’s demand, arrangements may become more common while tightening US electricity supply.

(Participate in the coverage at night, Kirnenedheng, by Bernadet Boom)