Big Tech's Energy Needs Are Growing So Fast That Power Grids Can't Keep Up

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Big Tech's appetite for energy is just about visible from the east coast of Scotland. Some 12 miles out to sea sits a wind farm, where each of the 60 giant turbines has blades roughly the length of an American football field. The utility companies behind the Moray West project had promised the site would be capable of generating enough electricity to power 1.3 million homes once completed. That was before Amazon stepped in.