News from the IT Home on November 6th: Google (Google) announced on the 5th of this month local time that it will collaborate with several partner companies to build its first data center in Wyoming, USA, in Laramie County. The total investment for this project amounts to 17 billion US dollars (Note from the IT Home: the current exchange rate is approximately 113.603 billion RMB).

Google commits to making this investment in a responsible manner: American Power (AEP) will build 702MW of natural gas fuel cells for the project, along with supporting carbon capture and storage initiatives, to minimize carbon emissions; the rest of the power required for the project will come from gas turbines, and Google is also exploring the possibility of integrating carbon reduction systems into combined cycle gas turbines; in addition, this data center will use air cooling for heat dissipation.

In other aspects, Google expects this project to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in property tax revenue for the local community; Google will also make community investments in education for minors, labor force development, and economic development at the state level.