Google signed a deal with Intersect Power and TPG Rise Climate to spin up enough carbon-free power to drive several gigawatt-scale data centers.

The partnership seeks to enhance infrastructure deployment speed, reduce grid burden and improve energy reliability and affordability.

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Under the partnership's terms, Intersect Power will construct clean energy assets, with Google as the offtaker via new data center campuses and as an anchor tenant in colocated industrial parks. Google plans to deliver gigawatts of new data center capacity across the US as part of the partnership.

Energy parks can provide grid services, but they face regulatory challenges, including uncertainty around the rules for co-located load, according to Energy Innovation.

Google is taking a bold step towards a more sustainable future with a new partnership aimed at powering its data centers with sun and wind.

Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online Google believes the US electricity grid can't deliver the energy needed to power datacenters that deliver AI services, so has formed an alliance to build industrial parks powered by clean energy,