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Google and Intersect are building a data center co-located with over a gigawatt of new energy generation in Texas. It is the first project the companies have announced since Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced the acquisition of Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash in late December.
The project, dubbed the Meitner Energy Center, is located in Gray and Roberts Counties. It features a data center of unspecified size, which will come online alongside wind, solar, and battery storage. The site will also include on-site gas, which will “ensure reliable operations” and meet a “minority share” of the site’s demand, according to the announcement.
The co-located power generation will be dedicated to the data center, and help “meet its demand while reducing the need for new power supply on the local grid.”
The data center will also use advanced air-cooling technology to limit its water consumption. That’s in line with the responsible stewardship practices about water use that Google publicized earlier this week, in an attempt to appease some of the mounting data center pushback in communities across the country.
