TeraWatt Infrastructure, a company founded to develop, own, and finance electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the United States, has appointed Google’s former head of energy strategy, Neha Palmer, as CEO.
Palmer brings her deep expertise in building out rapidly growing fleets of large-scale, energy-intensive infrastructure from the data center world to the emerging electric vehicle charging infrastructure asset class. As Google’s first hire focused on data center energy, Palmer built out and led the team developing electric infrastructure and electricity procurement for its global fleet, covering dozens of sites over four continents. When she joined Google, they had eight data centers with under 3 TWh of annual electric consumption; by the time she left, they were operating dozens of data centers on four continents with more than 13 TWh of annual electric consumption.
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