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Google has worked to make its own data centers flexible, but reasons it is often faster and more cost effective to pay other customers to shift their electricity usage, an executive told Utility Dive.
Published June 3, 2026
Electric vehicles recharge at a Tesla Supercharger station on Sept. 23, 2024, in Pasadena, Calif. Google and Voltus recently announced they are partnering on a virtual power plant in the PJM Interconnection that will aggregate distributed energy resources, including electric vehicles, smart thermostats and batteries.
