• ‘World’s largest battery’ to provide 100-hour iron-air storage for Google data center The battery has a 30 GWh capacity and a 100-hour duration. • US tech giant Google announced on Tuesday that it will build a new data center in Pine Island, Minnesota. • The new facility will be powered by 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy from wind and solar, coupled with a 300-megawatt battery, claimed to be the ‘world’s largest’, with a 30-gigawatt-hour (GWh) capacity and 100-hour duration. • Google is currently working with Xcel Energy to build 1.4 GW of wind power and 200 MW of solar power, both of which will feed Form Energy’s battery, helping the new data center operate on clean energy for longer periods. • The new facility will be Google’s first in Minnesota, and about an hour southeast of Minneapolis. • With the scale of storage products currently underway in China and other geographies, it’s difficult to verify if the 30 GWh figure is indeed the ‘world’s largest’.

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  • ‘World’s largest battery’ to provide 100-hour iron-air storage for Google data center The battery has a 30 GWh capacity and a 100-hour duration. US tech giant Google announced on Tuesday that it will build a new data center in Pine Island, Minnesota. The new facility will be powered by 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy from wind and solar, coupled with a 300-megawatt battery, claimed to be the ‘world’s largest’, with a 30-gigawatt-hour (GWh) capacity and 100-hour duration. Google is currently working with Xcel Energy to build 1.4 GW of wind power and 200 MW of solar power, both of which will

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