CleanTechnica•4 months ago
Waymo Entering Boston & Sacramento — Where Next?
- •Autonomous vehicle (AV) company Waymo is expanding operations to Boston and Sacramento, backed by $16 billion in funding.
- •This expansion signifies a significant, concentrated new electrical load for local grids, driven by large-scale EV charging infrastructure for AV fleets.
- •The growth of AV services implies increased demand for backend data processing, impacting datacenter power consumption and location decisions.
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