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Why we’re putting 1.6 million solar panels in Tennessee and Alabama

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An aerial view of our Tennessee data center under construction (photo credit: Aerial Innovations).

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Thanks to the deployment of 1.6 million solar panels, approximately 72 percent of our data center electricity use in Alabama and Tennessee will be matched on an hourly basis with carbon-free sources—compared to a status-quo regional grid mix that is 48 percent carbon free. (This projection is based on 2017 TVA generation, power demand of a typical Google data center, and local solar resources.)

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