Meta buys over 1 GW of renewables to power its data centers

Meta encouraged the power portfolio already enough renewable in this week that has added 1 gigawatt production capacity.

The social media agency announced Thursday that they would buy 791 megawatt solar and wind power from the project developer Inventory in Ohio, Arkansas and Texas. And on Wednesday, Meta says it will buy environmental features from the solar farm of two renewables in Texas, 360 MW in total.

Various projects are expected to come online in 2027 and 2028.

Meta was in a renewable purchase spree. Last month, it has signed an agreement Buy 650 MW Two solar projects are being built by AS, an utility and a force-gene-generation company. Earlier this month, the technology company made an agreement with XGS Energy for a construction 150-Meagawat In New Mexico.

Deals give an encouragement to renewable at the time when there is subsidy for technologies Being targeted for elimination The House and Senate Republicans are being held out by the Senate Republicans.

Solar power, especially, is the fastest way to gain new energy today for data centers. A common solar farm can be done About 18 monthsSomething with the construction of the phases allows the electron to provide more sooner than that.