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Google will add together 10 megawatts of geothermic power in Taiwan to its renewable portfolio , the companyannouncedTuesday , marking the search giant ’s first geothermic investment funds in Asia .
Swedish caller Baseload Capital is developing the project through a local subsidiary , which has been mapping the island for geothermal resources since 2019 .
It ’s not the first geothermal deal for Google . In November , geothermal startup Fervoconnected a 3.5 - megawatt office plantto the power grid as part of an agreement with Google to supply power to its data centers in Nevada .
Geothermal has the electric potential to leave up to 90 gigawatts of clean , coherent index in the U.S. by 2050 . Island hotspots like Taiwan stand poise to generate a pregnant fraction of their electricity from the Earth ’s heat . Taiwan , which sit on the western bound of theRing of Fire , wants to harness 6 gigawatts of geothermal by 2050 .
