AI · Friday, October 23, 2026
Google and Voltus announce a larger virtual power plant
The File desk · Oct. 23, 2026, 7:00 a.m. ET
Partially confirmed1 primary sources
Status
The companies' Thursday morning announcement is the source. No dollar figure was stated. The size claims are the companies'.
Google and Voltus said Thursday they are building a virtual power plant of about 1 gigawatt on the PJM grid. They said the earlier project was 100 megawatts, which they called a 10-fold increase. The announcement was at 7:30 a.m. Eastern.
PJM serves about 67 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia. That service figure is the grid's, as the companies used it.
Why it matters (Estimate). A virtual plant of that size is a claim about how data-center load might be offset on the biggest eastern grid. The companies have not published a price, and the open questions are listed with the story. (Estimate.)
The announcement states no dollar figure.
How we know
Notes
- 1.Company announcement, 7:30 a.m. Eastern Thursday: about 1 gigawatt, up from 100 megawatts, described as 10-fold, on PJM.
What is still unknown or disputed
- No dollar figure is in the announcement.
- This desk did not audit the megawatt claims.
Primary sources
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Source 1
Google and Voltus virtual power plant
Google · October 22, 2026
The companies said they plan about 1 gigawatt on PJM, up from 100 megawatts. No dollar figure is in the announcement.
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/virtual-power-plant-1-gigawatt/
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