Hypocritical Facebook & Google Use Fracking for Geothermal Energy

On Monday, Meta, the company that owns Facebook, announced an agreement with a start-up called Sage Geosystems to develop up to 150 megawatts of an advanced type of geothermal energy to help power the tech giant’s expanding array of data centers. That is roughly enough electricity to power 70,000 homes. Sage will use (wait for it...) fracking. That's right. Geothermal, as we've written about before, uses the same fracking that oil and gas drillers use in order to drill holes and create underground fractures where water is pumped and circulated, either heating or cooling, depending on the season (see Geothermal Energy Uses Same Drilling Rigs & Fracking as Gas Wells).

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