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Google Kicks Off Record 3GW Hydropower Deal With Brookfield to Power AI

Google is gearing up for a $25 billion AI infrastructure expansion with new data centers across the PJM grid following the launch of hydropower upgrades at two Pennsylvania facilities

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Overview

  • Google and Brookfield Asset Management have executed $3 billion, 20-year power purchase agreements for 670 MW at the Holtwood and Safe Harbor hydropower plants in Pennsylvania
  • Brookfield Renewable Partners will relicence, upgrade and overhaul the two facilities under a broader framework to source up to 3 GW of U.S. hydroelectric capacity
  • Over the next two years, Google will deploy $25 billion in data center and AI infrastructure investments across the 13-state PJM Interconnection
  • The agreements are designed to meet surging electricity demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing as U.S. power consumption hits record highs
  • Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat and President Trump highlighted the framework and its grid-modernization benefits at a Pennsylvania AI summit