From Energy Hogs to Rewiring the Grid: How big tech and data centers are solving the cloud’s growing energy appetite with renewables
September 4, 2025
Above image: Google Partners for renewable energy with NextEra Energy Artificial intelligence (AI) may be software, but it is built from hardware: steel, copper, concrete, and energy. Every search query, AI-generated image or digital transaction routes through a data center, the brick-and-mortar to the cloud. These facilities, ranging from modest colocation sites to sprawling hyperscale
