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Google’s bets on carbon capture power plants, which have a mixed record

✍️ Tim De Chant, Senior Reporter, Maxwell Zeff, Sarah Perez, Anthony Ha, Ivan Mehta, --C-Author-Card-Image-Size Align-Items Center Display Flex Gap Var, Media, Min-Width, --C-Author-Card-Image-Size 📅 October 23, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: October 24, 2025

Summary: Google intends to use electricity from the 400-MW power plant in Decatur, Illinois, to operate nearby data centers. Carbon capture will eliminate some of the plants emissions, but how much remains to be seen.

Google said today that it will invest in a natural gas power plant in Illinois that intends to capture the majority of its carbon emissions.

The 400-megawatt power plant will be built outside of Decatur next to an ethanol plant run by Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), which already captures CO 2 from its operations.

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