Google has entered into a deal to purchase electricity from a U.S. power plant that uses carbon capture and storage technology to fuel its Midwest data centers .

Big tech companies like Google have been exploring ways to generate sufficient electricity to power their energy-intensive data centers.

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Google on Thursday announced a corporate agreement to support the Broadwing Energy project, which involves a 400-megawatt gas power plant with carbon capture storage (CCS) in Decatur, Illinois. The projec

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