A small step forward. The plant in question is in Hualien.
Guy
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The thing is, Zhanghua, where Google’s server farm is located, absolutely has geothermal potential. The place was called Sulphur Creek (磺溪), and had one of the most famous hotsprings back in the Japanese era. Google totally could have developed a geothermal power plant closer to their operation center.
To be fair, the article points out that this their first agreement; it does not say it will be their only agreement, or their last.
Guy
One would assume it’s easier for a foreign company to just make contracts to buy rather than develop energy infrastructure themselves here, no? Far less risk. Energy is already cheap here, so it’s probably a fine sacrifice to pay cheap costs for juice over investing huge and spending time building new without long term securities.