SB Energy to Supply 942 MW Green Energy to Google Data Center in Texas

A leading climate infrastructure and technology platform headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, SB Energy Global has announced that Google will purchase about 75% percent of the renewable energy produced by four of its solar projects that are currently under development. The projects, totaling 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of capacity will support Google’s investment in Texas and clean energy ambitions. SB Energy’s Orion 1, 2 and 3 Eiffel solar projects are expected to be operational by mid-2024.

SB Energy claims that it has rapidly grown its climate infra-tech platform with plans to deliver 10 GW of renewable energy and storage projects in operation or under construction by the end of 2025.

SB Energy Co-CEO Rich Hossfeld, said, “SB Energy is thrilled to join forces with Google to provide clean energy to match Google’s Texas data center consumption.”

The PPA signed between Google and SB Energy supports Google’s commitment to operate every hour of every day on carbon-free energy by 2030 by supporting the energy needs of the company’s data center in Midlothian, Texas and cloud region in Dallas. The agreement is Google’s largest combined clean energy transaction in Texas to date.

Sana Ouji, Energy Lead at Google, said, “Within the decade we’re aiming for every Google data center to operate on clean electricity every hour of every day. This goal requires us to continue to grow our caron-free energy portfolio.”

SB Energy’s four projects will further support Texas’s robust renewable energy industry, which employs 10,000 people, with thousands of new jobs created during the projects’ construction. Additionally, the four solar projects will primarily utilize U.S.-made First Solar modules. The First Solar modules for the projects will be produced at First Solar’s Ohio manufacturing plant.

SB Energy is a leading utility scale solar, energy storage, and technology platform backed by SoftBank Group Corp. It currently owns and operates 1.7 GW of solar capacity and will have started construction on an additional 1.3 GW by early next year. The company is scaling rapidly, bolstered by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.