As tech companies and other large energy consumers are increasingly focusing on shifting toward a cleaner power supply, they face a choice to work with utilities or directly with developers.
Microsoft announced on Thursday a deal with developer Invenergy for a new 74 MW solar project in North Carolina. The company has been aggressively investing in renewable energy to power 60% of its data centers with renewable energy by early 2020.
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) published a blog post to promote the addition of 674 MW of new solar capacity to serve data centers by Google and Facebook, procurements that had already been announced.