Google's carbon-intelligent computing platform is now being used to connect data centers to the grid efficiently, allowing for energy-intensive tasks to be assigned when renewable energy is abundant. The company has integrated demand response into utility contracts across the South and Midwest, making up to 1 gigawatt of its data centers' electricity demand available for curtailment. This pivot towards demand response programs is seen as a way to enable the development of more clean energy in the future, despite challenges such as policy uncertainties and increasing energy demands from artificial intelligence. Flexible data centers can aid in the deployment of renewable energy by offsetting its variability, transforming them from a burden on the grid to a valuable resource for integrating variable solar or wind power.
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