“Insoumise France and environmentalists oppose the Google project
The environmental impact also crystallizes tensions, in environmentalists but not only. LFI points to the massive consumption of electricity to run the 24 -hour servers ”
On CA, more particularly on 24 hours a day they do not twist, the Texan experience shows that to insert intermittent renewable non -controllable in a network which already has sufficient permanent production without exploding prices for end consumers it is necessary to large consumers who agree to take the intermittent (the goal being to have the classic production and the intermittent production used to “100%” slowing the classic prod to give the priority to the intermittent)
“And the millions of liters of water required for cooling. “While we are told about drought and sobriety, we unroll the red carpet from an American multinational which claims millions of liters of water to run its machines,” denounces the party. »»
This is 100% phony unless Google uses towers of refrigeration (this is from the “smoked” of nuclear power plants for example), it is much more likely that this data center turns with closed circuit cooling water (roughly coat of PC))