Most anytime a user searches for answers on Google, the company’s artificial intelligence assistant, Gemini, compiles a summary of results at the top of the page. The process runs on computers at Google’s data centers, which consume lots of electricity.
At computing centers across the Southeast, that electricity is increasingly moving through wires and conduits built by Lawson Electric Co., Chattanooga’s largest electrical contractor, which celebrated its 100th birthday this year.
Lawson Electric contracted with Google on its data center campus in northern Alabama and is working with Core Scientific on two data centers in Dalton, CEO Bill Crawford said.
Data centers are the largest jobs undertaken by Lawson Electric, which still provides a full range of electrical services, including residential repairs.
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