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title: "CERAWEEK-Wait time to connect to the Virginia power grid climbs to 10 years, Google energy exec says"
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# CERAWEEK-Wait time to connect to the Virginia power grid climbs to 10 years, Google energy exec says

HOUSTON, March 25 (Reuters) - The time required to connect to the Virginia power grid, where the largest concentration of U.S. data centers are located, have climbed to 10 years, Amanda Peterson Corio, global head of data center energy at Google, said at the CERAWeek conference in Houston on Wednesday.

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