why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Supported
Gallucci: Fervo and Google launched an advanced geothermal plant in Nevada
“And late last month Fervo and Google successfully started operating a first-of-its-kind power plant in Nevada using these advanced geothermal techniques. And it's now delivering electricity to the grid in Nevada, which is where Google operates some of its mass…”
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Lacey: Fervo and Google brought two Nevada geothermal wells operational
“Fervo and Google just announced this week that, that two of the wells that they financed in Nevada are operational, and they're using horizontal drilling techniques to You know, borrowed from the oil and gas industry to drill cheaper geothermal wells, and so, …”
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Goodman: Google TPU v4 is twice as energy-efficient as TPU v3
“So just one example TPU version four is actually twice as efficient as TPU version three. So that means, you know, the amount of machine learning compute that we can run is substantially more for less energy.”
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Ramanathan: Google and data centers push for hourly 24/7 green power matching
“Many of them, you know, Google comes to mind, are really pushing for twenty-four-seven green power, which is to say that a given data center Every hour of power that it consumes off the grid, brown power, should be matched by green power.”
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Kairos, TVA, and Google partner on a 50MW nuclear data center deal
“The Tennessee Valley Authority, Google, and California-based Kairos Power announced a collaboration today. TVA will eventually buy nuclear power from that plant in Oak Ridge, which will then supply up to 50 megawatts of energy to TVA's power grid. That grid po…”
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Woolard: NRG and Google invested $300M and $150M in BrightSource's Ivanpah
“NRG, they came in and were able to take about three hundred million, I believe, of the Equity, both cash and tax. And then Google came in for about half that amount, and that gave us what we needed to do to restart the financing.”
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Janus: Big tech hyperscalers grew from hundreds of megawatts to gigawatts by 2020
“Early in the two, you know, 2010 time frame, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, you know, they maybe all had a few hundred megawatts of data center capacity. Well, now you get to the end of that decade, now they're all sitting on a few gigawatts of capacity”
Assertion Supported
Goodman: Google reached 66% carbon-free energy across global data centers in 2021
“And so in twenty-twenty-one, we reached 66% carbon-free energy across our global data centers, and that actually includes five data centers that are operating at or near 90% carbon-free.”