SAN JOSE — The first power projects in PG&E’s pipeline to serve data centers could appear on the grid as soon as next year, despite some hints of softening demand, as the utility titan races to meet the tech industry’s hunger for the data hubs.

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PG&E is in the final engineering stages for electricity projects that would produce a combined 1.6 gigawatts of energy to serve data centers in the South Bay, said Mike Medeiros, PG&E vice president of strategic commercial solutions, during a meeting hosted by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce this week.

Oakland-based PG&E is scouting for opportunities to connect data centers to electricity supplies because large energy users can take on a greater share of the fixed costs of operating and maintaining the electric grid.

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