Google Continues Texas Power Purchases for Data Operations

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Written by Eric Funderburk for IIR News Intelligence (Sugar Land, Texas)

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Summary

Last week, Google made further provisions to power its data centers with renewable energy, signing a power purchase agreement for solar power from facilities in Texas.

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New Agreement

Data center operator Google Incorporated last week unveiled yet another Texas solar power purchase agreement (PPA) to power its growing network of facilities. The agreement was with solar power developer Sunraycer for the company's Lupinus and Lupinus 2 projects in Texas, which will have a combined nameplate generating capacity of a little more than 400 megawatts (MW).

The Lupinus Projects

Construction of the smaller, original Lupinus project is expected to begin later this year, leading to about 165 MW of power, while work on the larger Lupinus 2 project (about 244 MW) is expected to kick off next year. While Industrial Info has pegged the projects' startup dates as a couple of years out, the PPA may have hastened Sunraycer's timeline as the company says it now aims to begin commercial operations from both projects by the end of 2027. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Project Database can learn more by viewing the related project reports.

Another Texas PPA

Last week's agreement with Sunraycer comes not long after Google signed another PPA for Texas solar power with TotalEnergies in February. That agreement covers 1 gigawatt of power for 15 years, with the primary source being TotalEnergies' planned solar farm in Wichita, Texas. Construction of the facility is expected to kick off next year and be completed by the end of 2028, providing more than 600 MW of solar power and up to another 150 MW available battery energy storage capacity. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the project report.

Google's Texas Projects

Google has a few projects planned and under construction in Texas. Most of these are not particularly close to the solar farms with the recently contracted power, and only two would be within Texas' ERCOT grid, on which the solar farms are located. These two data centers are a large grassroot facility in Haskell and the expansion of an existing data center in Red Oak.

Work on the 280,000-square-foot Building 1 of the Haskell project kicked off late last year is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027. Work on a second building is just off the ground, and Google ultimately plans to build five buildings at the site, with construction of the final building expected to wrap up in 2029. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the related project reports.

Google completed the first building of its Red Oak campus in the Dallas area last year and now is underway with construction of a second building that is expected to be completed by the end of this year. A third building is planned that will push the campus' combined square footage to 1 million square feet, although this isn't expected to begin operating until late 2027. Subscribers can click here for more details on the projects.

Key Takeaways

• Google signed a PPA with solar power builder Sunraycer for offtake from the latter's Lupinus projects in Texas.
• Google signed another Texas solar PPA with TotalEnergies in February.
• Google is underway with and planning projects at three Texas data center sites, two of which are on the ERCOT grid.

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