Meta, the company with data centers in surrounding states has plans to build many more of its gigawatt-sized data centers.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week the company intends to spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” to bild the centers in order to power AI.
The first such data center on the construction list is in Ohio while the second such center, called Hyperion, is nearly the size of Manhattan.
In February, Meta reached an agreement with Enel North America to acquire electrical power from the Rockhaven wind farm located in Murray and Carter counties in Oklahoma. The electricity is being used to power Meta’s data centers in adjacent states.
The announcement stated that the agreement at the 140 MW Rockhaven wind farm is the third power purchase agreement between the two companies. Enel has sold clean power to Meta from the Rattlesnake Creek wind farm in Nebraska—supporting the Sarpy Data Center—since 2018. Enel and Meta announced a power purchase agreement from the Alta Farms wind farm in Illinois in 2023 to support the DeKalb Data Center.
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