Economic growth, especially through AI and data centers, is causing?national electricity demand surge.?America’s ability to win the?global tech?race depends?on?increasing?domestic production of stable, resilient, and cost-effective power.?Today, with our partner LRE, Eolian announced over?700 MWac of new co-located solar capacity in Oklahoma?to directly support Google’s Pryor data center. These new projects will begin operations in 2025 and 2026, bolstering the state’s supply?with a new?diversified?energy mix. By?providing electrons directly to the data center?on?the hottest hours, this?avoids?having to?bring power from far-flung corners of the market allowing?for data site expansion?while reducing impact to the overall electric grid during high-stress hours.?
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“The addition of more than 700 MWac of new solar resources at carefully chosen locations will enable more efficient utilization of the regional transmission network and enhance grid resilience while also directly enabling customer expansion,” said Aaron Zubaty, CEO of Eolian. “In a time of growing electricity demand needed to power our overall economy, these co-located solar projects provide a very tangible and real solution.”
The?Mayes County Solar Portfolio?and the Twelvemile Solar Projects will deliver 724 MWac of renewable capacity to Oklahoma.?These strategically-located projects address the critical need to deliver reliable energy directly at the point of consumption. Through collaboration with Google, SunChase, and LRE, Eolian is helping to ensure that the energy infrastructure supporting American AI leadership is reliable, resilient, and future-ready.
“Co-locating large-scale clean generation resources adjacent to data centers isn’t a novel concept. Eolian and our development partners have been creating co-located data+energy projects like the Mayes County solar complex for nearly a decade.?This announcement showcases what’s possible when innovative electricity consumers and forward-thinking, motivated utilities work together with developers. Eolian has a multitude of additional gigawatt-scale clean and flexible co-location sites in development across the country that are designed to host new-build datacenters and large industrial load complexes adjacent.?This co-located data+energy site is the tip of the iceberg for what’s possible.?With this milestone for Mayes County solar, we look forward to unveiling our larger data+energy plan showing that gigawatt-scale AI applications with co-located, reliable and clean dispatchable power are already years into development, and can be built in diverse locations across the US for a resilient and redundant strategic national network,” added Zubaty.?
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