Google announced on Wednesday a massive investment of €13 billion in Finland to build new infrastructure and secure dedicated clean energy for artificial intelligence 🚀.
You need serious power to run modern AI models. Finland offers a cold climate that helps cool servers naturally and a stable electricity grid with low carbon emissions. The funding will build three brand-new facilities set for completion between 2027 and 2028:
▫️ Kajaani in northern Finland
▫️ Muhos for regional expansion
▫️ Vaala to support heavy computational loads
To keep these power-hungry servers running, Google signed a 22-year deal with the Finnish power company Fortum to buy half of the output from the Loviisa nuclear plant.
Ruth Porat, a top executive at Alphabet and Google, noted this is the company's first nuclear energy deal outside the United States. Other tech giants are making similar moves. Rivals like Microsoft and ByteDance have also established operations in the region, building on the path paved by Google's older Hamina center which opened inside a former paper mill back in 2009.
Nuclear power is becoming the ultimate backup for the digital age.
Clean energy is the new bottleneck for tech growth.
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