TotalEnergies has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with a total installed capacity of 1GW to provide electricity for Google’s data centers in Texas, USA.
These two 15-year PPAs cover two solar power plants under development by TotalEnergies: the 805MW Wichita project and the 195MW Mustang Creek project, both located west of Dallas. It is reported that construction on the two projects is expected to begin in the second quarter of this year. Upon commissioning, the cumulative electricity generation over the term of the PPAs is projected to reach approximately 28TWh. Marc-Antoine Pignon, Vice President of U.S. Renewable Energy at TotalEnergies, stated that these agreements represent the largest renewable energy PPAs the company has signed in the United States to date.
In January of this year, Clearway, a U.S.-based renewable energy company in which TotalEnergies holds a 50% stake, signed three separate PPAs with Google, with a total installed capacity of 1.17GW, to power Google’s data centers in Missouri, Texas, and West Virginia. This latest agreement between TotalEnergies and Google marks a further deepening of their collaboration.
According to data from Germany’s Statista, as of last March, the United States had over 5,400 data centers, a density more than ten times that of Germany, which ranks second. Just last month, the Trump administration announced a $100 billion artificial intelligence data center development plan, which is expected to be powered at least in part by solar and energy storage.
