TotalEnergies to supply solar power for Google data centers in Texas

TotalEnergies announced today that it will supply solar energy to Google’s data centers in Texas under a new long-term renewable power agreement.

The agreement reflects growing pressure on technology firms to secure reliable green power as data usage and AI workloads rise sharply.

Under the deal announced today, TotalEnergies signed two long-term power purchase agreements with Google for about 1 gigawatt of solar capacity. The deal indicates the increasing pressure on tech companies to have a stable supply of green energy as the volume of data and artificial intelligence-related tasks increases exponentially.

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In the agreement that was announced today, TotalEnergies agreed to enter into two long-term power purchasing agreements with Google to purchase approximately 1 gigawatt of solar power. Two utility-scale Solar projects under construction in Texas will be the source of the electricity and will be supplied over 15 years, when the locations will be opened. It is anticipated to start construction on the projects in 2026.

The solar energy will be used to support Google data center growing processes in Texas, which is one of the rapidly growing cloud infrastructure centres in the US. The data centers need significant amounts of continuous power supply and Texas has become a favored target because of its vast grid, good availability of sun and favorable energy market.

The agreement between TotalEnergies and Google Texas data centers underlines the vision of the total Google to operate its services on the carbon-free energy on the 24/7 basis and identifies how the large tech giants are defining the future of renewable energy demand in the U.S.