When Google revealed it is the company behind a proposed data center project in West Memphis, the tech giant said it will also invest in Cypress Solar, a 600-megawatt solar power and 350-megawatt battery storage facility near Pine Bluff to be built by Entergy Arkansas Inc.
Google has invested in other solar farm projects in the United States, but it signed agreements to purchase power from them, and not to fund construction.
If built, Cypress Solar will support the significant power needs of the data center as part of its ongoing plan to have all of its data centers run on carbon-free energy by 2030.
Google’s investment in Arkansas is a part of a pattern of building data centers and investing in solar farm projects to help power them.
Details about how Google will invest in Cypress Solar have not been released.
In 2019, Google opened a $600 million data center in Papillion, Neb. Since then, it has built two more Nebraska data…
