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'''Widows Creek Fossil Plant''' is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by [[Tennessee Valley Authority]] (TVA) and is located on Guntersville Reservoir on the Tennessee River in northeast Alabama.
The last unit of the power station is planned for retirement by October 2015. Google has proposed a US$600 million project that will use the plant’s preexisting electric transmission lines to power a clean energy center, with construction planned for 2016. Google pledges to run the 350-acre facility entirely off of either solar or wind power (, or a combination of both). Construction of the data center is slated to begin in 2016.<ref>Natasha Geiling, [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/25/3673875/google-coal-data-center-is-coolgle/ "The Future Is Here: Google Is Turning An Old Coal Plant Into A Clean Energy-Powered Data Center,"] Climate Progress, June 25, 2015</ref>
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